Richie Sowa’s Spiral Island II

By Trula on July 19th, 2008

This is pretty awesome, this guy has built an island from recycled plastic bottles. From the site:

What is Spiral Island II? It is a tropical island paradise floating on over 70,000 recycled plastic bottles. It is about 20 meters (60 feet) in diameter, and growing, soon to contain over 100,000 bottles!

From 1998 to 2005, Rishi Sowa hand-built and lived on the first Spiral Island, which floated on over 300,000 recycled bottles! It was destroyed by Hurricane Emily in 2005. Rishi has now built an even better island at Isla Mujeres, Mexico, in a lagoon which offers shelter from bad weather:
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