Day: April 14, 2025

Recently added to the Second Life Destination Guide is a Homestead region setting by SL couple Lu and Leelou Von Perkle (Lu Carrillo and LeeLou Graves respectively). Called simply Pususaari, its engaging description was enough to have me hopping over to take a look:

Pususaari is a little island made for kisses and quiet smiles. Wander through meadows, chase the sunset, whisper secrets by the sea, get lost in a moment, discover, cuddle, or dance under open skies. For lovers, dreamers, and quiet explorers.

– Pususaari Destination Guide entry.

I have no idea as to the inspiration behind the setting – whether it simply draws its name from Pususaari (roughly “Pusus island”) on lake Puruvesi, Findland, or has been so-named in memory of a visit to that tiny island, or the similarities in the naming of both islands is just coincidental.

On the one hand, Lu’s physical-world time zone suggests he might hail from Finland and thus aware of the physical world location, and there is something of a similarly between the two islands in as much as they both have their greatest length running along a south-east / north-west line. However, whether there is any strand of a link between the two is rendered largely immaterial by the rugged beauty and sense of peace to be found within Pususaari in Second Life.

It is towards the south-eastern end of the island that the Landing Point is to be found. It sits on a deck built out over the coastal waters and alongside the island’s southern headland. The latter rises behind the café occupying a good portion of the deck, perhaps offering it shelter from any harsher weather that may pass over the island. A broad arc of beach stretches north and west, its southern extent not quite reaching out to the deck and the café,  so a wander along a raised boardwalk is required to reach the sands with dry feet.

From this beach, the island might be split into six distinct area suitable for exploration. Directly east of the boardwalk steps, the sands lap at the foot of a grassy slope deeply scored by water run-off channels rises to the top of the southern headland’s large plateau. It thus offers a way up over the plateau to the eastern shoreline or, for those fancying a further climb, up the summit-topping lighthouse sitting at the tallest part of the island.

Separated from this plateau by a deep cut of an inlet lies another east coat highland area. Rivalling the lighthouse summit in terms of its highest point, it is reached by leaving the beach and striking out across the meadow that forms the central lowlands of the island.

The path upwards here is via another grassy slope with signs of heavy rain water run-off over the years, and which reaches up between two bony shoulders of rock to reach a rough path. This winds through a wooded area atop the hills before it splits, one arm dropping down to the north-east coast occupied by a cosy little holiday shack, the other pointing to a further grassy climb running up to the spine of these uplands, forming the route up to the high tree.

Across the meadow to the west, the land is equally divided, stony, rocky lowlands to the south sitting under two further shoulders of rock. Water drops from one of these shoulders to a pool of water below, while atop the other, and reached via a further sleep slope between them, sits a large windmill. Finally, to the north across the meadow to the north is a further ribbon of beach running from the north-eastern highlands to the lee of those to the west, where a Tuscan-style villa sitting within their lee.

Throughout all of these areas are places to sit an spend time, be it within little shacks hugging the east coast, wooden chairs sitting on the rough-and-tumble lowlands beneath the waterfalls, little spots on the beaches or up up among the hills or in and around the villa and / or the café. All of them present a variety of views and encourage visitors to stay and let the time pass without worry, with some requiring a bit of a climb – as with the bench under the gnarled tree mentioned above, or the ruined clock tower sitting high above the villa; all of them offer their own destination within the various parts of the landscape.

Rich in detail large and small, indoors and out – including local animal life (wild and domesticated), Pususaari  lives up to its description fully: a place caught under an ideal shared environment, offering plenty of opportunities for photography, romance and simply wandering pleasure; even the default region name – Bisous – is perfect.

SLurl Details

• Pususaari (Bisous, rated Moderate)