Tag: Pususaari

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)

My first and – at least until a few days before writing this piece – only visit to Pususaari, the Homestead region setting designed by Lu and Leelou Von Perkle (Lu Carrillo and LeeLou Graves respectively) for 2025 was made back in April, just as spring was about to burst forth. It was a location that immediately struck a chord in me, and I thoroughly enjoyed exploring it back then, as I noted in Pususaari: romance and kisses in Second Life.

Well, the year has clearly rolled on by since then, and 2026 is not that far off. As a result, much of Second Life turning to winter settings and wintery things to do, in keeping with the northern hemisphere – including Pususaari. Given this, I felt it was time for me to make a return visit and take in how the region has been transformed into an entirely natural wintertime setting.

Enjoy winter on Pususaari.

Glide on the frozen lake, drift over white hills, or ride through snow. Warm up at the café, slip under the northern lights with your date, and let the night soften around you

Maybe you’ll be the one to find the butterflies?

– Pususaari’s winter 2025 About Land description

The first thing that struck me on my arrival – alongside the sheer beauty of the setting – was the manner the landscape, whilst different in form and content, echoed in part the rugged handsomeness that had marked Pususaari when I first visited in April, albeit it this iteration of the setting only having a single rocky highland over which Nature has thrown a blanket of snow.

The Landing Point faces this highland area from across the region. It sits on a large deck reaching out over the icy waters from a snow-covered beach. The home of a little café, the deck offers a striking view to the north across the island and west towards the revolving eye of light as it is cast around by the lamp of a tall lighthouse.

Sitting between the beach and the highlands is a broad meadow, again somewhat mindful of the April 2025 iteration of the setting. Within it, horses and donkeys roam through tall grass. Across it, and sheltered in part by the lee of a large table of rock extending southwards from the setting’s higher slopes, sits a barn in which the local chickens and turkeys are wisely avoiding the snow.

The well alongside this barn offers a rapid ascent up to the snowy peaks, being an Experience-driven teleport. Clicking on it and accepting the local Experience will play the teleport animation and deliver you to the local Office up on the hills. The sign is one of a number scattered across the setting offering opportunities to do things – teleport, dance, obtain skates for use on the local frozen pond, rez a sled, and so on.

The sled (and skis) can be obtained from the little office on the hill, the western slope of which is ideal for getting back down to the lowlands when using them (or indeed, for walking up to the office). Whilst there is a slope to the east of the office, using it for sledding or skiing might be inadvisable, given both the gorge barring a part of the way down and the fact that were the slope does descend to the lowlands, it does so steeply and ends abruptly in the waters of a cold stream dropping down from the lower plateau.

For romantics, there is a little hideaway sitting on this plateau as it reaches south towards the meadow, and which can be reached easily enough by walking part-way down the eastern slope of the peak – or by turning off as you climb up the western slope. This little cabin is one of several places waiting to be found around Pususaari which offer nice little retreats. Some are easily spotted when wandering, others might need a little more work to find, such as the little greenhouse converted into a cosy cliff-top nook.

It is these little locations, each one neatly furnished and offering its own particular attractiveness to visitors, which make wandering the setting on foot more than worthwhile. As is reading the various signs scattered about the landscape, not just because they might offer opportunities for activities, but because one in particular will help guide you to the butterflies mentioned in the setting’s About Land description. I’m not going to tell you where this is; suffice it to say that the butterflies reside in a little suggestion of warmer, snow-free months, thus reminding us that even in the depths of winter, summer is not that far away.

With skating available on the large frozen lake, a mix of wildlife that suggests this is very definitely a northern hemisphere sub-Arctic / Arctic location, all caught under the snow / star spangled sky with a rippling aurora, Pususaari – Where winter comes to rest is an engaging and peaceful wintertime setting.

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• Pususaari (Bisous Island, rated Moderate)

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.

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• Pususaari (Bisous, rated Moderate)