Richie Sowa's Floating Island Near Cancun, Mexico
You may have said, like I have a couple of times…
“Wouldn’t it be nice to live on my own desserted deserted island?”
Hawaii seems like the natural place, there are thousands of islands, and yet I haven’t heard of anyone living on any by themselves – have you?
This guy went to Cancun, Mexico and decided to build his own island. How do you build an island? You float it with plastic bottles you collected. His island is now as big as a tennis court. The government of Mexico wanted to bring tourists on it!
In 2005 he lost the island to a hurricane. In 2007 Richie started building a new “spiral island” in the waters of Isla Mujeres, the “Island of Women”, near Cancun Mexico and better protected from waves and winds. He opened it for tours in 8/2008.
From Wikipedia:
The new Spiral Island is about 20 meters (60 feet) in diameter, and plants and mangroves are already growing on it. It contains about 100,000 bottles. The new island has beaches, a house, 2 ponds, a solar-powered waterfall/river, and solar panels. Volunteers helped with the project. Rishi will continue to make improvements to the Island, so it will always be a work of art in progress.
Quite a resourceful guy. Watch the video – simple people with an idea do amazing things.
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