Couple has lived for 29 years on a hand-built island they call the Freedom Cove

My Positive Outlooks ^ | July, 2020 | Farah H.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9WWzbzevTA

[duckman]

What if they need a dentist? Just sayin

[L,TOWM]

As I feel my character defect of envy kick in, I console myself with the thought that it was a lot of work and something I would be too lazy to pull off...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or maybe brush and floss.

Just sayin.

[PGR88]

The construction weighs 1 million pounds and floats freely on the ocean. As for its size, it’s as big as two city lots. The

When you get there, an archway of whale bones will greet you once you.

It has a dance floor, an art gallery, a candle factory, four greenhouses teeming with plants, six solar panels that give power to the structure, and access to a small waterfall that provides constant running water.

Just DAMN! I had to replace a faucet and trim the hedges this weekend, and that took up most of my weekend....

[DannyTN]

"The compound is not anchored to the ocean floor, and only lines connect it to the shore." How do they maintain their position? What lines connect to shore? Power lines? I thought they were powered by solar.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The video (under 5 minutes) shows the big cables that are anchoring them. Looks like cables they use on suspension bridges.

My question is how is this legal? But, it’s Canada, Eh!

[Steve_Seattle]

It looks like the shacks occupied by river-dwellers in the Philippines. Manila has a lot of that sort of thing.

[Conan the Librarian]

Not that much different that what we do on our sailboat, but, we can (if they every straighten out the Covid restrictions) sail to the Bahamas, Europe, the South Pacific and other points.

We got solar, and, a water maker. We just need to go ashore for food, and other necessities.

We ARE on a mooring ball, not tied up to some poor tree or bush.

[Chuckster]

I admit to being a bit eccentric. I live on my boat in Southeast Alaska. But at least I have sense enough to moor in a snug harbor during the winter months. I have been in those waters off Tofino during an autumn storm. No fun.

[MomwithHope]

There was something similar, not so big, in the carribean, he built it out of 2 liter plastic bottles and planted mangrove trees to hold them together.

[03A3]

affluence

They must have rich diets.

[Seruzawa]

Now that this is out on the net the Canuck govt will probably shut it down. No one is allowed to escape.

[Obadiah]

...While most of us can only dream of living in our own island,...

What? Who would want to live alone on an island? That's like saying people in solitary confinement are merelu enjoying self reflection time.

[Scrambler Bob]

Where is Costner and Waterworld??

[M_Continuum]

I would. I Do not plan on doing time, but if I did I would want solitary confinement.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

If it’s floating, it’s a raft, not an island. Still looks like a neat place.