There’s only about a dozen homes on Florida’s isolated Cook Island, and now one of them is for sale.
Located at 3 W Cook Burg Pne, the beach cottage was built in 1985 and is truly “off-the-grid” in just about every way.
Accessible only by boat or seaplane, there are no utilities on Cook Island, so the home uses solar power and gets its water from a rain cistern.
Cook Island sits near Big Pine Island in the Florida Keys, and was first settled by Captain Percy Cook in the 1920s, and for years was it used as a fish camp for wintering vacationers from the north.
Though sparsely populated, Cook Island bore the brunt of Hurricane Irma, which damaged quite a bit of the homes, including this one, when the storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in 2017.
Today, the cottage has been raised from the sand, and comes with 704-square-feet of living space, as well as three bedrooms and two bathrooms. It also comes with a dock permit, since the old one appears to have been blown away.
The beach cottage is currently asking $799,000 and the listing agents are Dave Wiley
and Banks G Prevatt of Coldwell Banker Schmitt RE Co. Lower Keys Office.
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