Category: Second Life

I’ve had a something of a rough couple of weeks, the result of which has been very little time in-world, other than parking myself at the occasional user group meeting and trying to keep up with “routine” posts here. So, as things have decided to improve, I decided to ease back into blogging visits and bits by returning to a location that has been a recent favourite for me: Pususaari.

To be honest, I didn’t arrive at this decision all on my own, my friend Cube Republic poked me with the news that the region had once more been reworked by holders Lu and Leelou Von Perkle (Lu Carrillo and LeeLou Graves respectively), and this served to encourage me to hop over and have a look around once more.

This marks my third visit to the setting, which carries the name Pususaari – Where spring feels gentle, the others having been in April 2025 and again in December 2025. With those visits – as with this one – I could not help be feel at home within the region.

Romantic island for dates and quiet moments. Soft light and gentle nature invite you to relax, wander and connect. Discover a cosy café, hidden seating spot, open verandas, beaches, animals and a unique lighthouse landmark watching over the shore.

– Pususaari About Land Description

The cosy café and lighthouse of the About Land description face each other across the gentle, sandy sweep of a shallow bay on the south side of the region. The café forms the region’s Landing Point on the eastern side of the bay, whilst the lighthouse stands at its western extent.

The latter appears to have been decommissioned some time ago; the lantern is off and the glass of the light room is heavy with grime and dirt to the point of being opaque. Now the only illumination the lighthouse seems to provide is that of a hand-held lamp. This sits on a round table on the lighthouse gallery, a wooden chair alongside it offering a perfect look-out point, although getting up to them appears to require a bit of a jump!

The bay and is guardian lighthouse and café are in turn overlooked by an artist’s studio/ retreat sitting up on one of the island’s wooded peaks. It can be reached by walking inland from the café, passing through a gap in the fence backing the beach and then climbing the lower slopes of the peak to where a wooden stairway and deck provide access to the upper slopes and the studio.

Inland, the region is split into two by an east-to-west flowing channel crossed by two bridges. The first of these is reached via an easy walk through a low-lying meadow beyond the slope leading up to the artist’s studio. On the north side of the water channel, this bridge is watched over by a working windmill.

The latter forms a part on a small homestead farm on the north side of the setting, joining with a Tuscan-style farmhouse and outbuildings bordering another sweep of meadowland, horses cattle, horses, pigs and chickens making up the livestock being tended.

The farmhouse is ideally placed to overlook the beach running along the north coast of the region, a waterside summer gazebo offering a retreat of the hard work of the day on the beach, while an outdoor dining space complete with pizza oven offers a further corner of delight for the farm owners and their family.

The western end of the north beach cuts a little more deeply into the land, and sandy walk leads inland and up to the second bridge across the region’s water channel. This provides access to the back of the wooded hill where the artist’s studio is located.

A steep grassy climb runs up over the hill, allowing explorers to make their way back to the studio. An easier walk around the shoulder of the hill offers a path to an old shack on the coast, the deck of which has long since claimed by the load seal population, whilst the interior offers a further retreat for romantics.

A couple of wrecked boats suggest the waters around the island can be a little capricious in their treatment of passing vessels while at the same time offering further points of interest to those exploring the region – and, in the case of one of the boats – for the local pelicans!

All of the above leaves a lot unsaid about this iteration of Pususaari – the level of detail to be found throughout, the mix of local waterfowl, the many places to sir and pass the time alone or in company – and, of course, plenty of opportunities for photography.

So – why not go see for yourself?

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• Pususaari – Where spring feels gentle (Bisous, rated Moderate)

Earlier in February, Honey Heart (H0neyHeart) – whose Sable Hound Hollow I visited towards the end of January 2026 –  dropped me a line to let me know our mutual friend / acquaintance, Stevie Morane Basevi (Stevie Basevi) would be officially re-opening her region of Sanctuary on February 19th, although it is already available for people to drop in an explore, together with the neighbouring region of Zantosa.

Stevie is something of a tour de force in Second Life. I first met her through Relay for Life of Second Life, before coming to know her a little more through both her art and her association with projects I’ve tended to follow and support in my own way: One Billion Rising, The Dickens Project and the Bradbury Project. An avid role-player, Stevie first established Sanctuary in 2008, growing it over time to a community and location covering many aspects of Second Life.

Sanctuary, long celebrated for its award-winning historical role-play, has evolved into a vibrant cultural space for art, photography, dance, music, and theatre—welcoming global gatherings and creativity without borders.

– Sanctuary About Land Description

For this latest iteration, both Sanctuary and Zantosa – each of which are Full private regions leveraging the Land Capacity bonus available to such regions – Stevie has turned to another old acquaintance to design the overall look and layout of the regions: Busta  (Busta Blakewell, previously badboyhi, whose regions designs have regularly featured throughout this blog.

Given the size of both regions, I’m not going to try to cover them both in a single post; they are richly laid out and offer much to be discovered, so will hopefully return to Zantosa at some point in the near future.

Sanctuary offers a setting suggestive of somewhere in England; a place with certain timelessness – parts of it could easily be Victorian, others carry a faint hint of the 1950s-1960.

This town is the kind of place in which it would come as no surprise to turn a corner and find Sherlock Holmes lecturing Dr. John Watson on the minutiae of various powdering of ash and a certain bird droppings will inevitably lead to the cornering of their quarry. Turn another and it would be equally unsurprising to witness find a dapper John Steed stepping down from the running board of his 1930 Bentley Speed Six, umbrella in hand as he rounds the front of the car to open the door to allow Ms. Emma Peel to gracefully alight.

In other words, it is immediately immersive and open to broad role-play opportunities.

The Landing Point sits to the east side of the region and within the town square. Splitting the townscape in two is a high wall and a tall gatehouse. The latter forms a teleport link to the neighbouring Zantosa. Simply walk towards the gates to be teleported across the region boundary.

The local lunatic asylum offers its own opportunity for potential role-play, having been turned into a bar – although who is to say some of the former residents aren’t lurking in the upper floors? The asylum is one of a number of locations within the town which can be explored. Others include the local church, a pair of pavilions offering a kind of two-part music conservatory, the theatre  and the Sanctuary art gallery, featuring Stevie’s art on the ground floor.

It is outside the church that visitors can obtain further information on the region, including a delightful back-story to its development and a teleport HUD to help reach points of interest – simply add it from inventory to use it.

The majority of the locations on the teleport HUD can be found on the ground level of the setting and so can be reached on foot. Two, however, are sky-based and will require the HUD to reach them.

I’m not going to give a blow-by-blow description of the region, it really does speak for itself in terms of design, atmosphere and details. I will however note that there is a further art display – dedicated to Sue Elaine Winkler to the rear of the main gallery building.

Part of the region is cut through with a storm drain linking two low-lying parts of the setting. This carries a suggestion a degree of land reclamation has taken place, resulting in an inland body of water complete with multiple places to sit and appreciate the setting, together with a recovered area of coastline forming both a walk and further places to sit and pass the time.

Whether or not you are into role-play, structured or casual, sanctuary makes for an engaging and photogenic visit.

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Sanctuary (rated: Moderate)