1. You can take some stuff with you. Not a boat, ship, plane, raft or other device that can take you off the island. What would you bring? You have five objects to choose.
The question asked:
1. Oiled canvas. With the canvas I’d have shelter and a rain catch.
2. Rope. The rope is used for the shelter, snare traps, a rope bed to get off the ground.
3. Hatchet; for cutting wood, dispatching trapped animals. Skinning and butchering the animals. Also as a hammer and it can be used as a light gardening tool
4. Medium foot hold trap. (traps don't run out of ammo)
5. Large iron pot. Boiling water to prevent beaver fever. Cooking my food and to radiate heat at night.
The dream:
1. My camping boxes. In it I have my tent, a Korean War vintage GP Small. A woodstove. A Queen size rope bed. A full camp kitchen set. My wonderful solar heated camp shower. And all of my camping tools: shovel, axe, hand saw, chain saw, buckets, Tiki-torches (not that the fuel will last). And the one thing that is absolutely necessary for camping, my drinking horn!
2. My Gun safe and reloading table.
3. My garden shed. Now we have tools, seeds, some lovely but unused pots, a small sundial and a bird bath (No messy birds on my island.) AND all of my fishing equipment that my wife had me put in the shed to make room in the garage. – I’ll thank her later.
4. A minimum of 6 healthy bee hives and bee keeping suits and gear. (Mead)
5. Last but not least, my brewing equipment.
2. What area of the world would you like to be stranded in?
I’m looking for an Orcas Island type of place. Northern but not excessively wintery, nor too hot in the summer. Additionally I’m familiar with the environment and survival would not be an issue. I think a tropical island would kill me.
3. What does your personal island look like? Vivid descriptions, please.
It is about 60 square miles. There are small eroded mountains inland and lush mountain valleys with fresh water streams flowing to the ocean. As you move toward the edges of the island there are rolling open fields begging for the plow. There are berry bushes and apple trees. Elk, and Whitetail are in abundance. There are some black bear but no cougars (no offense to the WSU fans).
4. What natural resources are available on the island?
There is a ready supply of lumber and many large streams that could be used for turning mill wheels. There should be iron ore and coal deposits. Copper and tin would be nice too. I’d like to see some hemp too for paper and textiles. And no shortage of sand at the beach for glass production. Some clay deposits would be handy as well.
5. What would you build on your island?
A fine Brewery…and other incidental things like a lumber mill, a flour mill, a smithy…etc.
6. What devices, tools and stuff would you construct? To what purpose would you use them?
See above
7. Should there be wild animals on your island or do you want to survive entirely on fish and vegetables? There is wild game, wild fruit and excellent fishing. There should be plenty of shell fish (clams, crabs). And since I'm not going without my wife there will be vegetable gardens a-plenty.
8. Describe, come with ideas. Tell me stuff that I haven't asked, but that you want to tell me about your island.
There are no biting insects, no poisonous snakes or spiders. Rain is frequent and brief. There are many wet foggy mornings and dry sunny evenings
Section 2
1. If you could populate your island with one or more inhabitants except yourself, what kind of people would you put on it? You can choose according to MBTI types or anything you might want.
I think I’d like a couple hundred recreationists. Folks like myself that are comfortable living in the past and won’t whine about the absence of technology. I'd like to bring our friends and there families too.
2. What would your social rank be in this new population? You can either take the realistic approach or wishful thinking.
I would be the island's Master Brewer of course
Someone to be protected and revered.
3. What would you do in order to sustain a larger population?
A) What would you build?
The island I described with the resources and buildings I mentioned should support a suitably large population.
I’d also build a large trebuchet for the island’s annual “Huck a Boulder into the Bay” celebration.
B) What laws would you create?
Bloody few.
Don’t kill, Don’t steal, Don’t touch someone else’s privet parts without permission.
C) Anything else you can come up with? Religions? (Remember, you are entirely cut off from the world)
I’m a Catholic but for this little venture I think a conversion to Lutheran would be in order. Less overhead and all the flavor. I’d like a nice little church with a high bell tower and steeple. Most any religion that didn’t encourage explosions would be welcome.
Preferrably a roman onager construction. I'd probably use it for mindless destruction or something. 
Crazy ^^
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I'd hope that hot peppers grew there as well, along with plenty of spices and herbs, since I hate bland food... and tobacco and sugar cane so I could make rum! (grapes won't grow in too warm of a climate 
