Catherine King and Wayne Adams met in 1987 and immediately felt a connection through a shared love of nature and art. When they came across a pile of storm-strewn lumber in Cypress Bay, on Vancouver Island, they saw an opportunity to turn it into a home. Today, Freedom Cove has a lighthouse, four greenhouses, a dance platform, smokehouse and a candle-making workshop.
The story so far
Before we arrived, there wasn’t anything here except water, shoreline, trees, rocks, seaweed, herbs, wildflowers, salal (a shrub native to North America) and huckleberries. It did have (and still does) many starfish and other sea life including crab, clams, sea cucumber and water birds, including merganzer ducks, heron, gulls and kingfisher.
We built our floating platform on a beach outside the cove and, once…