Article on Lew Rockwell today — from a story linked to Brit Crap Rag “Daily Mail”, and I won’t link that craptastic site so you’ll have to find it yourself. Pretty cool story, though. Hopefully, bb won’t shit on this thread with his asinine commentary.
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A Canadian couple have ditched busy city life to live on a colorful off-the-grid float-home and garden they’ve dubbed ‘Freedom Cove‘.
Wayne Adams and Catherine King created a completely self-sustainable float home consisting of 12 platforms that houses wooden structures, green houses and living spaces all interconnected through a wooden pathway.
The magenta and turquoise floating structure, off the coast of Tofino, British Columbia, was built in 1992, and the couple, who have two children, live in the home year round
During winter months, the couple collect rainwater for drinking and in the summer they collect drinking water from a nearby freshwater waterfall across the bay, according to Collective Evolution.
They have several greenhouses in which the family grows fruit and vegetables year round. Electricity is supplied to the home through solar panels and photovoltaic energy generators.
The home also has a lighthouse, a myriad of pots filled with plans and flowers, and a collection of art made by its artistic owners, according to Tofino Time.
A hen house also used to reside on the structure, but the couple decided to give up on livestock when they realized how many predators had easy access to the hens.
The couple told Tofino Time that the floating home they’ve lived in for more than 20 years has been an on-going and ever-changing project since it’s beginning.
The home is self sufficient, with solar panels providing electricity and the couple gathering water from nearby freshwater sources. They also grow fruits and vegetables in their greenhouses.
The structure is off the coast of Tofino, British Columbia, a town on Vancouver Island of a little under 2,000 residents. King and Adams said that their home is an ever-changing project
Adams and King, who is a former ballerina, live in a lively ecosystem with deer, wolves, otters and numerous coastal birds, according to the Plaid Zebra.
One type of animal in particular – 30lb rats – seem to be the couple’s biggest problem. Wayne said that the creatures often gnaw at the foundations of their floating home.
But that doesn’t keep the couple from doing the hobbies they love – making art and maintaining their beautiful gardens. Adams is primarily the artist in the family and King gardens.
King did, however, apprentice for Adams in carving and eventually grasped the art and grew to create her own style, according to Vanguard Divers.
Their carvings, which are usually formed out of fossilized ivory and mammoth tusk, but wood and other materials as well, have been displayed in shops and museums across British Columbia.
Many of their carvings and candles are on sale in the town of Tofino, which is about a half-hour boat ride away from their home.
King and Adams love visitors and give tours of the home to those who want to learn about the couple’s journey of self-sufficiency.
Not the color scheme I would have chosen, but all in all, not a bad effort at telling the Almighty State to fuck right off…
That rat problem… just blast the motherfuckers. It’s what I do. Might not solve the problem, but it makes you feel better.
“Livestock” in waterworld, huh?
Well, a novel idea I read about – that I have yet to steal – is making a floating duck house, covered in chicken wire to prevent predation. You anchor it in one spot and make an entrance for the ducks – sort of a covered walkway that extends underwater, or damn near. The ducks have no issues with going underwater to gain access to their floating redoubt via the secret entrance…
But then, we don’t have 30 pound rats, either… which might make life difficult for the ducks… but then, there’s the whole “blast the motherfuckers” thing…
I dunno… I’d at least like to have me something else to eat on Fuck You Island than veggies and fruits… I wonder what rat-burger tastes like?
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I say go for it folks…..Jes wondering if that lake freezes over in those Canadian winters and low amount of sunshine affecting the solar power.
On another note bb is not the village idiot as he comes from a village of idiots.
Now, THAT’S a house boat!!
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@ Stuck,
Yeah, okay… that got me laughing… there’s some redneck muhfuggers who do shit like that, and you just shake your head and wonder how they don’t fall down more…
+1
I’d still call it “Fuck You Island”…. or at least have a motor on it so we can move around…
The plans for the above ship are ready …. just need to find someone with a billion bucks to start building it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346375/The-Streets-Of-Monaco-hyper-yacht-extravagant-built.html
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Stuck,
Dude, there’s two mini yachts, a helicopter, one submarine and three swimming pools on that boat…
Swimming pools on a boat… plus other boats… that’s cruising in the Caribbean….
Yo Dawg! I heard you had a boat… so I got a boat and a boat for your boat!
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Articles like this make me puke.
Looks like some pedophile amusement park.
What’s the point? How many people can live like that? It’s crap. Worse than the crap I recently read where NASA says: ‘In the future we will be taking regular trips to Mars.”
KB said: “Jes wondering if that lake freezes over in those Canadian winters and low amount of sunshine affecting the solar power.”
So, FYI, that “lake” is called the Pacific Ocean, and this part of it doesn’t freeze. Ever.
It’s a great effort- I’m very impressed with the work that went into this and hope it works out for them over time.
I sort of like the colors- though I’d probably decorate my own differently.
They shouldn’t have to worry about sub-freezing weather where they are berthed, off the coast near Tofino. The climate there is Pacific Northwest- pretty mild. It’s not as though they were on one of the Great Lakes.
One thing troubles me- the potential for pollution were there too be too large a concentration of these floating homes. How do they handle “blackwater” waste disposal and trash removal?
Good for them.
Work hard and live the way you want as long as they let us.
Thx snick didnt knows that..
“How do they handle “blackwater” waste disposal and trash removal?”
Seattle has a lot of houseboats, and they have onboard waste tanks which are periodically transferred to a “poop scow” boat and treated in normal wastewater treatment. I assume trash is also put into landfills like municipal trash. No idea for this particular remote houseboat.
Good for them. Any doomstead is a good doomstesd.