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出典: くみこみックス
Get away from it all
Haven't you ever had time you wanted to obtain away from it all? In March/April 1978, motherearthnews published a story about a couple who bought McLeod's Island � a 90-acre island off the coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
They have a number of animals, invest extremely little on groceries, and are pretty nicely sustained by the island itself. Even though it does present them with some challenges:
"The sea, you know, just isn't known as "restless" for absolutely nothing. A glass-smooth bay (as we've learned so nicely!) can churn-sometimes seemingly in seconds-into a windswept chaos of currents and combers. We've also seen that exact same bay (the one in which our island is located) thaw and then fully refreeze in just hours on a single December day.
Winters up here could be in particular variable. Continual spring-like thaws all through 1976's cold season, for example, kept our bay filled with slushy ice that was too thick to push a boat by way of ... but too harmful for even a fox to walk on. We were marooned for 3 full months, from the first of January until the end of March. Last winter's record cold snap, on the other hand, filled the bay so solidly with pack ice that we could hike back and forth to the mainland for our mail and toboggan loads of supplies any time we wanted."
For some of us, we find the net gives us the freedom to have the ability to function and live pretty much any place we would like to. These folks didn't have that luxury. I use the past tense as I can't find any present data about them. Who knows? Perhaps the tide swept the out to sea.
Life is full of sacrifices. Some are just a lot more dear than others. Still, I don't think obtaining an island is in my future.
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