The Island Oasis (using tensegrity)

With all the commotion around the house, wouldn't it be nice to get away to your own floating island!? You can relax, eat food, build a sand castle, go surfing with the fish (Don't worry there's no sharks), and maybe get a tan! That would be bliss!!!

 The fifth picture shows that the tensegrity mechanism and the palm tree work although you would cut the string in the real model.

 Built with 240 pieces!