Wayne Adams, 66, and Catherine King, 59 live on an off-grid, off-land, and off-the-chain self-sustaining floating ‘island’ made of 12 floating platforms in Cypress Bay, just off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Their ‘Freedom Cove’, which the couple started building in 1991, includes five greenhouses, a dance floor, an art gallery, a lighthouse tower for guests, a generator shed, and a studio where Adams, a carver, and King a painter, dancer, writer, and musician, live.
For the couple, who have two children, the source of drinking water is a nearby waterfall in the summer and rainwater in the winter while source of food is the crop they grow on their half-acre garden and fish they catch from the ocean. Freedom Cove was once powered by 14 solar panels, but after these broke down the couple switched to a small Honda generator which gives them about 3,000 watts of power each day.
Adams and King used to live in the heart of tiny Tofino when in the summer of 1991 they decided to to build their dream float home. “One winter, a storm blew a whole bunch of trees down. We gathered all the wood up, took it to the fellow who owned it, but he said keep it. So we thought, time to start on the home,” Adams told Huffington Post. In February 192, they towed the million-pound masterpiece, using that lumber, into the cove relying on old fish-farm technology to stay afloat.
Do they miss the city life? No. Adams and King are content to just keep floating on. “Living in the wilderness is constant inspiration. It’s so incredible to wake up every morning and see all of this. This is how I will live for the rest of my life,” King added.
Adams concluded, “We have both done so many things in our lives and we’ve had hard times, so we were well prepared for how different the lifestyle would be out here. It fits us.”
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THIS IS INCREDIBLE!! That is my perfect home. I love nature (though the cold Vancouver air would certainly change that)
and would give everything to live “off the grid”.
Im jealous.
This is amazing how these people live is inspiring, I am 38 and have just aquired a large allotment going to grow every season I would love to live like this away from the everyday mundane life styles
isn’t it awfully cold all winter – sitting on the water?
Admire their determination and guts!!!
This is such an inspiration, I’m currently saving up for a bus to convert into a off grid mobile home to tour Europe in, seeing things like this makes my government job seem worthwhile for another day or two
Good luck, man! I hope to see you one day cruising in your mobile crib heheh