Ahh… drink it in. Johnny Depp graces the July 2009 Vanity Fair cover and offers the interviewer a first-hand look around his 45-acre private Bahamian island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay, in the VF interview.

Johnny Depp explains that the island is “my way of trying to return to normalcy…. Escapism is survival to me.”

Depp’s escape provides him “a little morsel of anonymity,” a place where he can “come down here and disappear.”