Searching for a Home

After a week of work-prep (buying tools and safety gear) and doing some pitiful temp work for dispicable pay, I am back on mayne island to get the goods on the housing situation and work scene. No one has replied to my ads on island. There seems to be only two expensive cottages for rent which are unessicarily big. I get the feeling you really have to know someone out on the islands to get a toehold out here. Some people are pretty open and friendly others guard there slice of heaven. After talking to some people i was directed to check out a rough cabin that needed work to become livable. It is true, the caretakers are doing what they can to get a toehold on Mayne themselves, but the landowners couldn't care if anyone lived there. The place needs a wood stove, outhouse and a lot of love to be livable, but it doesn't feel like the safest place.

I don't feel that work could be too hard to find here, I've already given out my # for odd carpentry work, and picked up some quick cash splitting wood for a cottager. I will be doing a fencing job with colin back on Vancouver island tommorow, and then hopefully take a trip up island to see my step-sister Kerry and an old friend Melota. I want to check out the housing and work scene there before I make any decisions.
I will be returning to Mayne for a big party at Pat Henneberry's place and staying for a week of free cob building instruction!Yay my first green homebuilding class.
Pat and Kit are really amazing, creative, innovative, and welcoming people i have met here. Pat is a self-taught cob home builder. He just got back from Burning Man festival, and had some wild stories. See there webpage "Cobworks" for more info. I will have detailed stories and pictures of the work i get into later.
On saturday night I went for a hike up to Mount Parke park, with Jeff and Sam what a view! not to mention the sweet helicopter landing pad with peace sign. far-out!