Together Alone

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After travelling the world alone in his handmade boat, Scottish adventurer Ron Falconer still yearns to achieve his life- long dream- to have the ultimate sea change and live on a deserted island. But when he falls in love with Anne, a strong- willed Frenchwoman, it looks like his dream may remain just that. Two children later, Anne's ready to try it. But when the Falconers arrive at their new home, tiny Caroline Atoll in the Pacific, they quickly discover that life in paradise isn't easy. Shark- infested waters, crafty rats, giant crabs and flesh-eating ants- it's sink or swim for Ron and Anne, as they struggle to live off the land and raise their children without the things most of us take for granted. Ron, Anne and their two adorable little children, Alexandre and Anais, end up living on Caroline - part of the island nation of Kiribati- for four years. During that time they build their own beautiful little house- Ron brings the floorboards with him on his boat and salvages the roof from a shipwreck, while Anne weaves the shutters, Polynesian style, from coconut leaves. Ron also builds an outside kitchen, a chicken coup, a well, a solar shower (ultimately voted too labour-intens

Ron Falconer was born and raised in a small viallge in the highlands of Scotland. Always a dreamer and an insatiable traveller, he built his own boat, Fleur d'Ecosse, and sailed away to a life of a wandering nomad, travelling over 50,000 miles and visiting over 100 ports. For four years he lived with his wife and two young children alone on a deserted island, an experience he describes in his book, TOGETHER ALONE. Ron has now settled on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti.