When you don't want neighbors..

[alden135]

Here are a couple cool houses I go by every trip out.

Leaving the harbor:

Approaching my island mooring:

 

[POINTER94]

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Damn this is a cool thread. I just wish you would have posted it in May! I think this one will make a re-appearance in a couple of months.

 

[jtexas]

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Looks like the water level doesn't vary much in your part of the world.

good pics - thanks for sharing

8)

 

[alden135]

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Looks like the water level doesn't vary much in your part of the world.

good pics - thanks for sharing

8)

Tides usually vary between 8 and 11 feet or so.

 

[mikecjn]

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Where is that Alden? It looks familiar...

 

[alden135]

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Where is that Alden? It looks familiar...

Pic #1 is leaving the Harraseeket R. Pic 2 is Bustins Island

 

[Mark42]

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Those are some really cool homes. After looking at them for a minute, I started thinking about how they operate.

Neither looks like the island will support a septic system. Think the waste is just discharged raw into the water?

And speaking of water, how does one get fresh water on such a small island? Can a well be drilled?

 

[stevieray]

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Gives new meaning to the phrase - "you cahn't get they-ah from he-ah"

 

[tommays]

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Incinerator toilets and really good water filters

Tommays

 

[alden135]

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Neither looks like the island will support a septic system. Think the waste is just discharged raw into the water?

The days of discharging raw sewage are over. Now you use a holding tank when you can't do septic.

 

[jinx]

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Not much grass to tend on that second one. I like that.

Jinx

 

[deejaycee_2000]

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wow ...... i like ...

 

[i386]

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Dang, I was hoping this was a howto article. 8)

Cool pics though.

 

[jtexas]

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the round one looks close enough for pipes...if allowed...

I was just wondering, what's the danger of flooding there?

 

[alden135]

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I was just wondering, what's the danger of flooding there?

That pic is at high tide. The house has been there about 100 years, but I suppose a good direct hit hurricane would wipe it out.

 

[sanssouci]

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Very nice....are they permanent year round homes or just summer homes.

 

[sanssouci]

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This place is my friend johns summer cottage about twelve miles away from our place on the mainland.

It take them twenty minutes to get there in good weather and in weather like this they just stay put with us till it's over.

Around here you need a rock bouncer

for a boat.

 

[alden135]

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That place is cool8)