I used to own an Island off the coast of Florida back in the 80s. It cost me $1.00/year to lease it from the government. I always wanted to build an A-frame house and boat dock on the island and make a vacation home of it but insurance was too high and there were some legal issues with the lease arrangement. The bugs were bad too – my wife and I fondly remember the place as Mosquitoville. I never wanted an island again after that one.
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Suzi 'What the 'Eye' Sees the mind can aquire'
What ???
$1.00 a year ??? was that a mis type ?
How comes you gave it up ?
How does one go about gettin that even if it is mosquitoville…
Iron Man is one busy hombre
How do the mosquitoes live
if there’s nobody on the island to live on?
They don't just eat on people
The island was less than 1/2 mile from the inland and other islands along the Intercoastal waterway so infestation is quite common nearshore. Many of these island have an abondance of wildlife that the female mosquitos feed on. My island had birds, large rodents, coons, cats snakes and probably some animals I never saw. Like other places, they’re not bad all the time but when they are it’s brutal!
Iron Man is one busy hombre
I want that Island
I live on the edge, and in the midst, of one of the biggest swamps in the world, second only to the glades and the bayou (or maybe it is bigger). Mosquitoes – shmeetoes. I’ll build something there without insurance. This will help me fulfill an otherwise unfulfillable goal. There’s plenty of fresh game and fish, and trees to make two bit shanties and a dock.
Cecede from the Union, declare independence, apply for aid from the UN, import some minions, and I’ll be well under way to ruling my own Island nation. We’ll call it Iron-mania (for more than one reason). And then it can be my pirate’s cove as well!!
YAH!!
No mistake!
Years ago you could do this. Maybe you still can. Check with the state department of conservation or whatever they may call it now days.
We moved away from Florida 25 years ago and never thought about it again.
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