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Haven't you ever had time you wanted to get away from it all? In March/April 1978, www.motherearthnews.com 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 few animals, spend pretty small on groceries, and are fairly nicely sustained by the island itself. While it does present them with some challenges:

"The sea, you know, isn't known as "restless" for 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 observed that identical bay (the one in which our island is located) thaw and then totally refreeze in just hours on a single December day.

Winters up here could be particularly variable. Continual spring-like thaws throughout 1976's cold season, for instance, kept our bay filled with slushy ice that was too thick to push a boat by way of ... but too dangerous for even a fox to walk on. We were marooned for three 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 obtain the web gives us the freedom to be able to work and live pretty much any location we want to. These individuals didn't have that luxury. I use the past tense as I can't find any existing info about them. Who knows? Perhaps the tide swept the out to sea.

Life is full of sacrifices. Some are just additional dear than other people. Still, I don't think

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MeridithAuguste32: Created page with 'Haven't you ever had time you wanted to get away from it all? In March/April 1978, www.motherearthnews.com published a story about a couple who bought McLeod's Island � a 90-ac…'