A couple's movie of self-sufficiency and dancing living while creating a "handmade island" with a total weight of 500 tons is on the road

"To whom do you say" This is not an ordinary way of life? "To the question that" Do you want to return? "In response to the question," Thank you very much, I am with you, "I answer my own way of living Mr. Wayne Adams. Mr. Adams is a wife, Mr. King, and lives with a huge "home-made island" with a gross weight of about 500 tons on a remote waterfront. Why did the two people living in handmade houses or greenhouses all built by hand, choose their way of living? What is your ordinary life like? That is, it is released in the movie.

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A colorful chunk floating on the lake.


If you look closely at the chunks, there are plenty of buildings gathered together, just like a theme park.


To go to this "homemade island", it is necessary for 45 minutes to be shaken on the ship even from the nearest city. During intervals, the interviewer who visits the island tells us, "Who will you return for those who say" This is not an ordinary way of life "?


Then, Wayne Adams, the Lord of the island who was on board the ship, said, "Thank you very much, I guess."


When I talked to Honma, the island came into sight.


Catherine King and Mr. Wayne Adams who is that husband who lives on this island.


Two people live in the Canadian island of Vancouver Island, where it is only accessible by boat, completely isolated from the city.


"The lake is a highway for us," Adams said.


Everything on the island is floating in water.


Looking closely, things like ropes are extending from the island ... ...


It is tied to land. Since we do not sink an anchor, it seems that the island will flow and go without this connection.



In the island there are main residences with living room etc ......


Dance Floor


Lighthouse etc.


There are 4 greenhouses in all. At first it was only two, but it seems that it expanded steadily as I was doing gardening.





Mr. King during gardening.



All the construction of the island is done by saws and hammers, and I do not use electric tools at all.


Current total weight is about 500 tons.


Adams said that he began making something like a tree house from the age of seven. In the question "Do you not get seasick?", "No, but when I went to the town I got a land sickness" was answered.


I go out in canoes for dinner ingredients ......


Get on fishing.


However, on windy days seems to sit in a couch and fish with holes made on the floor.



Mr. Adams once wanted to earn money as an artist, but I realized that self-sufficiency living is the way to "get things" as an artist. I chose to build a house myself, so I never purchased real estate. About the situation at that time, "It was a great opportunity to leave the city," Adams says.


Fresh vegetables in the garden ......


Cook right away.


It is a life that you can eat what you picked up that day. Even if you see the state of the kitchen, it seems that you can send a fairly satisfying diet.


Two people have been living on handmade islands for 24 years.


Adams laughed, "It's nice, I will keep on going" to Mr. King's saying, "I can not imagine living in any other way, the life here is perfectly satisfied."