Former Google CEO Larry Web page has quietly added yet one more non-public island to his assortment.
The billionaire co-founder, who has a identified penchant for buying islands, has been freshly revealed because the proprietor of yet one more.
In line with paperwork reviewed by Enterprise Insider, Web page in 2018 shelled out $32 million for Cayo Norte — a big parcel of land identified for being ringed by reefs, a haven for sea turtles and stuffed with white sand seashores — positioned 20 nautical miles east of Puerto Rico. At practically 300 acres, it’s the biggest privately owned island in Puerto Rico.
The publication added that Web page purchased the isle utilizing the identical LLC he’d beforehand used to purchase different islands.
In all, the 50-year-old is thought to have 5 islands positioned throughout the globe, from the South Pacific to the Caribbean, the place he additionally owns Cayo’s shut neighbor, the Lollik Islands, for which he paid $23 million in 2014.
It’s unknown what the tech exec — who started distancing himself from Google, and public life normally, in 2019 — plans to do with Cayo Norte. Locals inform Enterprise Insider that, since Web page bought it, they haven’t observed any indicators of growth. However some have seen helicopters touchdown there.
Space regulars additionally report that people have been seen partaking within the Silicon Valley-beloved exercise of hydrofoiling, which is actually browsing with a particular board.
Environmental conservationists have their fingers crossed that Web page won’t disturb Cayo Norte’s nature, because it has excessive ecological worth to the world and will disturb the area’s ecosystem if disrupted.
“Our hope is that this man doesn’t need this as an funding property that will probably be developed and ruined. If it may be protected with that north coast of [the nearby island] Culebra, that might be superb,” Mary Ann Lucking, director of coral-conservation NGO CORALations advised Enterprise Insider. “The worth of defending a spot like that’s not seeing these impacts. Maintaining it as is, with the vegetation that’s there.”