Meet The Man Who Lives In This Beautiful Floating Island He Built Using 150,000 Plastic Bottles

Ever wondered about living around trees in an open place surrounded by water? Well, then you’ve got to meet this man who built himself a green island.

Richart Sowa, 63, built his own floating paradise by using 150,000 recycled bottles. It took him seven years to achieve this goal. He calls it Joyxee Island.

The island rests in Isla Mujeres Bay near Cancun city in Mexico.

The place has a three-storey house with two bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom.

The house also has an internet connection, a rain collection equipment, solar panels for electricity, two ponds, a solar-powered waterfall, a small connecting river, a wave-powered washing machine and a jacuzzi among other interesting features.

Sowa began constructing it in 2007, two years after his first floating island attempt, Spiral Island, was destroyed by Hurricane Emily.

And he continues to improve it by adding additional features and adding more water bottles to the base.

He makes a living from music and art and showing visitors around his private island in exchange for donations.

And lives there with former model Jodi Bowlin. They have a pet dog as well.

“Living on my own floating island has been my dream for over two decades. I would recommend this way of life to anybody,” Richart Sowa said to Gazette Live.