To live in this houseboat community is to feel very much a part of the environment. Here, you can just be yourself and friends are on your doorsteps. It’s a unique and inspiring place with lots of interesting characters. There are singles, couples, families, downshifter, adventurers and people with different kinds of jobs like teachers, journalists, a vicar and even a midwife. There is a strong sense of community because of the wish to preserve what the people of today take for granted: respect for nature, respect for each other, and respect for things that seem to have no function anymore. Hamish’s boat is a perfect work of art made up of all imaginable bits and pieces: shipwrecks, front doors, bus windows, car bodies cut in half – a modern-day Noah’s ark.