Cc - Sunday News, July 19, 1981

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Photos & Text”
by Eric Eggertson

Life on: an. island. For
some _Reople | that conjures.

up visions of long ferry rides,”

higher food prices, and water
shortages.

But for Jean and Ian,
island life means a quick trip
aver to Eagle Island, where
they find seclusion from the
city and closeness to ngture.

The joys
of life on
an island

Jean’s parents bought a
summer cottage on the
island in 1928, and retreated
there for weekends and

summer vacations. Jean and

Ian moved there twelve
years ago, after razing the
cottage and constructing a
_ Split-level. home for their
family on the same spot.

The cottage .was perched ,
on a rock, but the new house.

is balanced on two rocks
covering most of the
property. :
They decided against
blasting the rock, and so had
to fit’ their house .on the
existing terrain. The front
yard slopes down to the
water where the rocks are

oo

worn smooth from the +
pounding waves. _

The sea birds constantly
flying by. provide inspiration
for one of their.sons, who

paints carefil:,,studies of
birds. The boys” “built their
own “house” ouft:,on the
rocks where they could get
away fromit a

_But on Baple Island there
is‘ little reason to get any
further away from things,
the waterforms ts own
barrier to intrusion.

Each family has a small
boat for ferrying passengers
“and supplies over the’ ‘Short ~~
stretch of water. Con-
- struction on ‘the house was,
_ complicated by thg-need to |
barge supplids over;= =

Inside, the kitchen and
dining area is on one ievel,
‘the living room a few steps

up, and the sleeping quarters
a few more steps up. Most
rooms look out on a view of
Eagle Harbour and the boats
sailing back and forth.

The living room is far the
sunniest room in the house,
and has become ihe
favourite haunting of two
cals.

Some of the furniture in
the living room was carved

‘from an arbutus by Jean's
father. He also carved the
jolly viking who greets
people at the front fanding ---

Now that most of their
sons have flown the coop,
Jean spends a lot of time in
the garden cultivating
plants, some of which were
planted in the days of the
cottage. A grape vine that
used to cover the southern
face of the cottage now
hangs. over a gateway in the
garden.

Living og an island is as
much an attitude as it is a
physical state. The only
vehicles on the tsland are
bicycles and wheelbarrows,
the ‘latter used to carry
groceries from ihe dock
Any small inconvenience in
getting to EAgle Island 1s
more .than rewarded by the
lack of car traffic and
general ‘intrusion from the
world outside.

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