A woman has been found out to have lived in one of the world's mot remote islands all alone by herself for the past 40 years.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
Zoe Lucas has lived all alone by herself
Zoe Lucas is a 67-year-old woman who has lived alone on a remote island for 40 years.
However, she insists she never gets lonely – as long as she’s got her binoculars to hand to admire its stunning wildlife.
According to The Sun UK, Zoe Lucas lives in a wooden-clad house on
Sable Island off the coast of Canada, which is covered in fog for around
127 days of the year.
But despite that, Zoe feels perfectly at home in the peace and
quiet – with 400 horses, 300,000 grey seals and 350 species of bird to
keep her company on the 26-mile island.
The woman lives in this wooden building on the island
She first fell in love with Sable Island when visiting as a 21-year-old student in 1971 and soon made it her home.
Speaking to MailOnline Travel, Zoe said: “I squawked and squawked, I wanted to come so bad. I originally came out here for the horses.”
Now a citizen scientist, the 67-year-old rarely returns to her
hometown of Halifax in Nova Scotia – and instead depends on supplies
being flown in on a weekly basis.
There is no way to reach the island, other than by boat or charter plane.
It earned the nickname “graveyard of the Atlantic” after more than 300 shipwrecks.
During her four decades living on the island, a refrigerator,
crateful of fresh peppers from a shipping container, popped balloon
carcasses and even a fake LEG has washed up on the beach.
Zoe spends her days studying ecology and collecting horses’ skulls
so that scientists can discover how the animals have been able to adapt
to the island’s stark landscape.
In 2013 Sable Island was made a National Park Reserve on June 20, 2013.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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