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almost looks like man-made 'private islands'...
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My vote is Dubai also, all manmade. In fact, they have the world there. You can buy your own continent.
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Its called "The World" its in Dubai. When the project is done its going to resemble a map of the world. Pretty cool.
www.theworld.ae
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Bigchillcar, those photos were from the British Virgin Islands. One of these days I'm going to retire on my boat there!
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how do they get power? underwater cables? solar?
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islandmanpa...for the life of me, i can't imagine why!
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http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1229&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=25.221472,55.139501&z=18
Possibly the most ambitious of Dubai’s land reclamation projects, The World is an archipelago of 300 islands laid out to represent countries of the world. The first developed island is owned by Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher. The $7 million piece of land was gifted to him by Dubai’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and is located in the Arctic (although I’m sure he would have preferred Germany). There’s various rumours of who owns the
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Underwater cables in the BVI's. All the islands in the area are sitting on the top of old volcanos. Average depth of the water hardly exceeds 70 feet. not sure about the dubai photos
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Bebe stands for "better boat"!
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wait until I move in my double-wide...ha ha there goes the neighborhood! ;o)
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double wide in the BVI's
We call that a catamaran
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i used to want to live on a catamaran..looked into while living in florida. not sure how it would go on the arkansas river!
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Cats don't draw much water. You can go really shallow if you have the boards up!
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when was the last time al gore was right ?
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oops...lol.
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only one thing can bring snow now, smit...and i think you know the language that i'm speakin' of...
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thinking about ditching the 15inch teledials
 and slapping on these little puppies i can score for a good price  i expect it to look a tad better, my l33t photoshop skills aren't l33t enough to make it 100% realistic... the area inbetween spoks is blacked out since the donor pic was of car, no brakes in em
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1974 Porsche 911 2.7
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