Retired oil plant operator Chris Luckhurst and his librarian wife Jill
feel a little whiplashed by their abrupt lurch towards an adventure more
typical of hipsters in gap years or boomers in the throes of mid-life
crises than of a couple who'd been cheerfully contemplating a
conventional superannuated suburban sunset. But the sense of abandon is
liberating. The Perth-based retirees heard about Tasman Ecovillage from a
friend who'd overnighted at the motel that generates revenue for this
fledgling off-the-grid community on 7ha of bush near the seaside town of
Nubeena, far southeast Tasmania. The Luckhursts visited for a week and
now they've bought one of the 10 lots available in the first stage of
development. "We're not hippies," laughs Jill, 66, describing the couple
as environmentally aware in an ordinary, urban kind of way. "Recycling,
limiting plastic bags, that kind of thing." Now they're set to embrace
solar power, compost toilets, permaculture gardening, neighbours in
their "pod" who they must not only wave at with a smile but consult at
length on all sorts of resources from trees to pets to car-pooling.
The eco-village people
Hello, my name is Jack Sparrow. I'm a 50 year old self-employed Pirate from the Caribbean.
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