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By 'eck! It's Yorkshire's Robinson Crusoe: Brit who bought a cut-price island in the Seychelles 50 years ago... and still lives in blissful solitude with 120 giant tortoises

• Sprightly 86-year-old bought Seychelles island for £8,000 in 1962
• When he bought Moyenne, it was overgrown with scrub so dense that coconuts could not fall to the ground

By SIMON REEVE
PUBLISHED: 19:45 EST, 25 April 2012 | UPDATED: 03:01 EST, 26 April 2012
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Surely it’s what many of us dream about while trudging into the office during another April downpour.
Why not escape the rat race and the grey skies to live on a sunny tropical island?
Brendon Grimshaw has done just that. In 1962, the Yorkshireman bought Moyenne - a small island just half a mile wide - in the Seychelles for the princely sum of £8,000, and he has been living there ever since.

Life's a beach: Brendon Grimshaw on Moyenne, the Seychelles island he bought in 1962 for £8,000

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1tCclGfFR

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What a way cool story! I think the 22-acre island would be a little small way out in the Indian ocean all alone!!

[CreativeAcrobate]

OMG that's a dream come true. Very lucky man.

The Seychelles islands are unbelievable. Like a time capsule in history.

Chunks of India that broke off of Africa when the continents separated.

i.e.

[johnuioyer]

if i saw an island like that for sale today - i'd think it was a scam.

beautiful home that guy's got.

[BluewayAllere]

One more of the Seychelles for Gundriller.

[StarsWorld]

Be a stateless person, find an abandoned Isle, just take it. No money needed.

Money is really over-rated. It doesn't purchase anything other than an illusion. You see something you like, offer the inhabitant a bribe to go somewhere else and when he vacates you step in and be the first to occupy the abandoned property. It is the possession that makes it yours. That and the willingness to grab a gun and defend it from all comers.

[teewHettive]

Be a stateless person, find an abandoned Isle, just take it. No money needed.

Money is really over-rated. It doesn't purchase anything other than an illusion. You see something you like, offer the inhabitant a bribe to go somewhere else and when he vacates you step in and be the first to occupy the abandoned property. It is the possession that makes it yours. That and the willingness to grab a gun and defend it from all comers.

Sounds like a good way to get eaten by dinosaurs.

[StarsWorld]

Sounds like a good way to get eaten by dinosaurs.

Well down in Mexico, the laundry's on the line
There's where you can go if you land on the nine
Canada is nice if you're fond of ice
If you land on the two then we'll send you there twice
We interrupt this game for a news release:
A man has gone insane and been killed by police!
Now back to the game, that's a dangerous play
'Cause if they see you in C-U-B-A you must pass away Prime Time .. Don McLean

[itaspCatCriny]

If one can't afford a forested Island, start with a free sand bar!

Man creates forest single-handedly on Brahmaputra sand bar
Mar 25, 2012 | asianage.com
A man in his mid-50s helped grow a huge forest on a sand bar in the middle of the mighty Brahmaputra in Assam's Jorhat district, which has caught attention of the government, tourists and film-makers.

The 30-year-long effort of Jadav Payeng, known among local people as 'Mulai', to grow the woods, stretching over an area of 550 hectares, has been hailed by the Assam Forest Department as 'examplary'.

Mulai began work on the forest in 1980 when the social forestry division of Golaghat district launched a scheme of tree plantation on 200 hectares at Aruna Chapori situated at a distance of five KMs from Kokilamukh in Jorhat district.

Assistant conservator of forest Gunin Saikia, who is presently posted at Sivsagar district, said, “Mulai was one of the labourers who worked in our project which was completed after five years. He chose to stay back after the completion of the project as others left."

Mulai not only looked after the plants, but continued to plant more trees on his own effort slowly transforming the area into a big forest, Saikia noted....

“The officials were surprised to see such a large and dense forest and since then the department is showing interest on conservation with regular visit to the site,” Mulai said.

Mulai, an avid nature lover, has constructed a small house in the vicinity of the reserve and stays with his family which comprises wife, two sons and a daughter.

He earns his living by selling milk of cows and buffalows he has kept.

[egexgfczc]

Large chunks of chocolate?

[CreativeAcrobate]

Large chunks of chocolate?

Possibly. Reminds me of watching the Flintstones.

The Seychelles is the only place in the world where you can still find coco de mer. Basically it's a gigantic prehistoric coconut. My take is the entire region is very similar to the Galapagos islands in it's own right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_de_Mer

"The Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica), the sole member of the genus Lodoicea, is a palm endemic to the islands of Praslin and Curieuse in the Seychelles. It formerly also was found on St Pierre, Chauve-Souris and Ile Ronde (Round Island, an islet near Praslin) in the Seychelles group, but has become extinct on these islands."