I was!

Well, not really stranded. I spent over a year living on a tiny island halfway between Alaska and Russia. I went for over a whole year without ever seeing a stoplight, or any commercial development for that matter. There was less than a hundred people and no monsters. I can relate to Locke's spiritual awakening. Everything just sorta clicked for me, too.

What was weird is that the Air Force had a base on another island, about a thousand miles away. They had a three hole golf course.

Sort of! One of the San Juan islands in Washington state, USA. I was there for a few days without ferry service or a boat of my own. So in a sense, yeah, I was stranded...just not complaining or worried about it.

I <3 Fidalgo. I was there last summer. I was 'stranded' on Sinclair, which is a very awsome, but desolate place.

YAY WASHINGTON!

I got lost in the woods one time...but I don't think that counts...

I've lived on a little tropical island all my life-- does that count?

I lived on the island of Okinawa for about a year but I was only stranded in the sense that I was there at the pleasure of the US Armed Forces.

It was rather nice.

Kind of.

I lived in San Francisco for 15 years. It's got water on 3 sides. Lots of wild animals. At it seemed that we were allways fighting for our lives.

Hmm Jeep broke down in the woods & had to hike out about 12 miles, guess that doesn't count :-\ Bicycled the San Juans with a group but the ferries were running between islands so that probably doesn't count :-\ Oh I know! Many years ago, all flights were cancelled, so I had to go back to Treasure Island Naval facility (San Francisco Bay) for a night instead of going home. :lol2:

Nooooooooo....sillies, cause there are no islands in Middle Earth..... :laugh:

Nooooooooo....sillies, cause there are no islands in Middle Earth..... :laugh:

i'll have to disagree with you there. have you been out on the Sea?

Sea? No, thats only for Elfkind...I'm a hobbit....

Right about now, I would give just about anything to be stranded on an island somewhere!! Coconuts and bananas... fine with me! ;D

yes, being on an island would be great... no stupid cold and no school...

O, are you a Buckland hobbit? because I'm sure there must be some small islands in the rivers...

You can hire Richard Bransons island all to yourself. But you have to have a couple of thousand.

Well... Sir Bransons island is out for me. I'm living in the poor house. I think I'll just go home and set my lawn chair up in the living room, put on some Jimmy Buffet, make a margarita and call it good. ;D

You could always hire a boat and sail out there and crash on his island and then pretend your a science vessel stranded.

I would be a good candidate for a science experiement right about now!!

Yes, I am a Buckland hobbit...I live in Brandywine Hall! With Merry! Although we are not married...as of yet...

Yes I was once stranded in this thing called an elevator

was that just totally scary?

Not an island but I have been camping for up to two weeks at a time. And I do mean camping. Tents, cooking on an open fire, washing up in a river. No tv, no radio.

It was fun in my teens. Not sure I'd do as well now but I loved it then.

Here you are I found his island, you can all save up and plan a Lost con there :lol2:

Necker Island (http://www.necker.com/)

we go camping every year for our anniversary....we went on our honeymoon and have gone ever since....tents, trees for toilets, dirt-in-your-food good! no tv but always radio(usually our face cds in the truck) wouldn't trade for anything!

I spent 8 days in Cyprus and 5 days in Rhodes - they're islands...
I also spent 6 weeks in New Zealand.....

I haven't really been stranded on an island..but I was stranded in Colorado for awhile. My friends and I took a trip there for Easter and for the fun if it. The car broke down twice...got it fixed twice....than something else went wrong with the car before we left to go home. We wanted to make it back before dark...but that didn't happen. We eventually returned home saftly with no car problems. Thank the lord. The first time we were stuck in Nebraska....pretty big place..I couldn't believe how long it took to leave Nebraska. Nebraska's pretty, but wasn't when the car broke down. When we passed Nebraska on our way home, we were laughing. Colorado is an awesome and beautiful vacation place to go! I loved it and I tried not to think about the problems we had to face later. :) So, thats my story. Yes, we were stranded there for hours, almost a day! It felt like we were stranded on an island! We had to put all our money together to survive this trip! and hoping and praying we will see home again. It was some adventure! :) Anyone else got stranded somewhere besides an island? I have other stranded stories....but that'll be too much writing to do. ;)

I only remember this vaguely because I was about five, but my family was on a 6 month world excursion and we were staying with friends in Jakarta, and spent a week on a private island in the Komodo Islands.* We would island hop, going from one little uninhabited island to another- sometimes you could walk along shallow sandbars from one to the next.* I was just a wee babe, but I was totally into the snorkeling and the fishes and I had no fear- I'd float two feet over poisonous sea urchin-like creatures and it was no sweat.* I guess I didn't really grasp it, but I was a total waterbaby, having spent a bunch of days in the Great Barrier reef area, and a month in the Gold Coast.* Once we island hopped so far by walking that we had to wait for a really long time for the boat to find us on this island that was basically a giant sandbar with scrub bush and driftwood all over it- does that count for stranded?* I think those memories instilled my lifelong fantasy of living on a desert island though- it was very close to heaven, and its very sad to think that most of those islands I visited are gone now, post tsunami, including the one with the vacation home we stayed in.* I can't imagine how it is for all the nice people we met there and spent time with...

I went on a cruise when I was 14. We went to a bunch of islands like Martinque, Dominica and a bunch of others I can't remember. So I've been on an island lol. And when I was really young I went to Hawaii and we walked around a dormant volcano lol. Not really a stranded thing but its pretty cool to me! :)

I live on an island (Vancouver Island) and when the ferry worker's go out on strike ... we are stranded, lol :laugh: I don't have to leave the island very much thankfully, but when I do, it's sometimes a pain - especially around holidays when the ferries are extremely busy and you have to wait for a few sailings. There are quite a few smaller islands off the coast and due to power outages or weather problems, they are often left stranded for a few days or so ...

So more than you've probably ever wanted to know about our island ;):

Vancouver Island Statistics
Length : 454 Km (282 miles)
Width : 100 Km (62 miles)
Area : 32,134 sq. Km (12,408 sq. miles)
Latitude: 49 degrees 57 min. 4 sec. N
Longitude: 125 degrees 16min. 10 sec. W

I live on an island (Vancouver Island) and when the ferry worker's go out on strike ... we are stranded, lol :laugh: IArea : 32,134 sq. Km (12,408 sq. miles)
Latitude: 49 degrees 57 min. 4 sec. N
Longitude: 125 degrees 16min. 10 sec. W


Rabgal, My brother lives in Victoria on Vancouver Island. I visited him there about 10 years ago. It is a beautiful place. Are you in Victoria?

Not really, But I work at a place three months out of the year at a place with no radios, no tvs, no electricity, we arent allowed make up, and only get to shower every other day. thats kinda like like on a stranded island. :D its a summer camp by the way for troubled inner city youth.

Yes. The island was Grenada. "Stranded" is an extreme term for what we were, though. Like, whoa, stuck on a beautiful island in the Caribbean, how hard is that?

The ship I was on ran aground on a coral reef off the island, so we were shuttled ashore in the lifeboats for a few days while they tried to refloat the ship. Finally, just as they were starting to fly people home, someone had the bright idea of pumping all the fuel oil off the ship onto a tanker. The ship then rose enough in the water to float free of the reef.

Templeton

I grew up on an island and now live on another island.
First Manhattan then
Brooklyn then
Queens. :)

I was at a place called Lake Powell, it's basically like the grand canyon but filled with water. Beautiful. Anyway, it's federal land and we happened to be houseboating there when the September 11th attack happened. They closed it down. No one could leave or enter since the Hoover Dam is part of this Lake Powell. It was very weird to not see any planes or anything flying overhead for two days. Since it's in the desert, you can see so much in the sky usually that it was strange. It was also very sad, knowing what had happened yet being in such a beautiful place vacationing. So we were stuck there but that really wasn't a bad thing. So, not really stranded on an island, but on a lake.

Over my Christmas break we lost power for 8 days. One of our trees kinda split in half...and half landed on the car in the driveway and the other on the lawn. We couldn't get out until we got the tree out of the way. And our front door was blocked...we still have a tree branch leaning on the side of our because there was so much damage that was worse. We went to a hotel for Christmas and opened our presents under the fake palm tree in our room. It kinda stunk cause after about 5 or 6 days practically everyone in our town had power...except for us.

I love being stranded in the house with my husband and some canldes and ENYA music!

That sounds quite romantic :)

Oh but it is!!! I never complain when we get stranded without the tv!

I got stranded on a sand bar once at Tybee Beach near Savannah, GA!
Some of us were swimming out a bit far when the tide got to high and we started to get tired.
So we had to make haste for this sand bar while some of it was still above water so we could rest
a bit be fore trying to head in to the beach. That was fun let me tell ya!
Of course this was after JAWS came out and each of us began to get a little panicy,
though none of us would say that to the others!

We ended up waiting several hours for the tide to go out enough for the sand bar to
begin to get more visible as we walked most of the way back to shore.
We got a bit of a scare and a good sun burn that day!

:angel:

That's a funny story! I like that!