121 sats \ 5 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb \ on: Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats meta

Canadian couple live ‘off-grid’ in self-sustaining floating home
Catherine King and Wayne Adams have spent more than 20 years living ‘off-the-grid’ in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The couple, who built their island self-sustaining home back in 1991, have been growing food, collecting drinking water and generating electricity ever since.
The floating island home, which they’ve named “Freedom Cove,” consists of 12 lake floats that include a dance floor, an art gallery, a guest lighthouse, a studio for Catherine King and Wayne Adams, and five greenhouses. The self-sustaining settlement has half an acre of land for growing edible crops. The couple gets water from a nearby waterfall during the summer and from rainwater during the winter. An array of 14 solar panels had powered the settlement but recently switched to a generator after these broke down.
https://www.boredpanda.com/sustainable-home-off-the-grid-freedom-cove-wayne-adams-catherine-king/
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @brandonsbytes 16 Feb
What is the reason to want to live above water? Seems like wanting to live in space. Humans can't breath in either. I'm out!
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @td 16 Feb
Bloody cold in the winter and bloody hot in the summer I bet
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb
hehe yes I'll bet. For that reason I'm out. I have to be warm!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb
Haha well lots of people live on boats and others live on wharves so I don't see it as particularly odd. It doesn't say specifically why they chose to do this. I will see if I can find any further articles to find out if there was a driving factor or reason(s) why.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 16 Feb
So Wayne grew up in Australia:
"Describing how he became interested in handiwork, Wayne said: "I did my boyhood in Australia. I had early training. At grade three I started working at sheet metal work. So making things and building things has always been part of my life."
The pair began building the home, on which they are largely self-sufficient, so as to be closer to nature.
He added: "The idea that the two of us wanted to be somewhere out in the wilderness, and do our art, and be immersed in nature, because that’s where we get inspired.
"Freedom Cove gives us all the protection we need.
"We have the colours magenta and green throughout the whole place because they represent to us rebirth.
Among the recycled materials that make up the island are recycled fish farms for decking and a pair of whale ribs to form an archway."
https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/travel-old/185559/couple-spend-27-years-building-off-grid-1-million-island-house-with-a-dance-studio-candle-factory-and-lighthouse/
And here is a YT video about them. I think it's all rather interesting and cool.
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