In 2005, we drove down to Dunedin for my sister’s wedding. We stayed out of town at a great little Bookabach property in Purakanui. As was our wont at the time, we did a quick scout around the local property market so see what was on offer and stumbled across this unique gem…an old whaling cottage…

…at was pretty original inside, and totally off the grid…we intended to keep it as much as possible in this condition and use only renewable energy sources…

…it had all the amenities you might expect…

…and had great views…

We were gutted when we had to sell it before we could do any work on it to fund another opportunity…one more lucrative but nowhere near as unique…