Isles: Main Isles

Today we'll look at the Isles of the game.

How do you determine which Isles is a main isle and which is not?
It's very simple actually.
Main isles have an arena in them. If you don't want to look everywhere for an arena, click on your mini-map (on the top right corner of your screen) until it shows the largest area it is capable of showing.
Do you see a large, black oval? That's the arena.

What do you call the isles that aren't main isles?
They're called sub-isles, and you can only find wild horses on sub-isles, as they don't enjoy the noise and buildings of the main isles.

Enough of FAQs now, lets take another look at the main isles.

You know, when you first get onto the game, you land on Welcome Isle? After you've completed the 5k quest on that isle, you will need to take a boat to another isle.
All of those isles are only main isles, with Plains Isle on top, and Narrowed Isle following. The most popular isle on the game is Plains Isle, I guess. I think that's because there's a large area beneath the hedges right outside the bank, where people can chill and talk and just idly sit there without doing anything.

Narrowed Isle houses another main town, with a General Store who gives a higher price if you sell stuff to it than any other isle.
But BE WARNED. You will get a lower price than any other isle if you sell tack to the Narrowed Isle Tack Shop.

Meadow Isle is a good place to practice your reining skills. And you can paint your horse another color there, even if it is only for 24 hours. Head to the livery, and talk to the girl standing in front of it. She'll describe to you the month's holiday colors, and will paint the horse you are currently riding for a certain amount, usually around 10k~20k. Some colors are more expensive than others, because they are prettier.

Angled Forest Isle is always mistakenly read as Angel Forest Isle. I don't know why, but I've called it Angel Isle before and got a good LOL. The town is built at an angle, so that's why it's called Angled Forest Isle. Go to the Inn, upstairs, and find an old woman. She pays for quartz at a very high price. For every 1 piece of quartz she'll pay you $200. For every 100 pieces of quartz you give her she'll pay you 22k. For every 250 pieces of quartz you give her she'll pay you 55k.
A great way to earn money if you get tons of quartz on mining trips.

Tiger Isle is the place where you can get cocoa beans, and sell Golden Feathers you find in the mountains at 5k each. Go to the near edge of TigerTon, and find MadamOcelot's house. You probably won't miss it; inside there are all sorts of animals, including birds, chicken and a zebra! Talk to her and she'll pay you 5k for every Golden Feather you give her.

Glacier Isle is the only main isle which is full of snow! Snow here, snow there, and occasionally Yeti Caves! There are also lots more Caves in the sub-isles of Glacier. You know it's a Yeti Cave because there are "yeti" footprints outside the cave. Go in and work your way to the top of the cave, and it's like a trip-wired maze. Don't trip over the wires or you'll have to start all over again! Once you reach the top click on the board and you'll earn a bonus point and a gem.
In one cave there's this Elf there and he plans to ruin the season for everyone. Do the quest if you can; it's just a normal quest.
What I really wanted to share was there is FREE drinks in GlacierTon! Go into the Tack Shop and talk to the lady in purple. There should be an option for "Brrrrrrrrrr!" and she'll realize you're cold and offer you a hot cocoa :D Nothing like hot cocoa in a snowy isle. Mrs Flax will also offer you a cup of hot cocoa if you talk to her. She's in the Flax Family Home.
(Actually I haven't been on for a whole month and so I'm not really sure now... GEEZ THANKS DAD FOR BLOCKING HORSE ISLE)

ANYWAY

Leaf Isle doesn't have much except for the beauty arena and a whole load of Smurfette houses or whatever. There's also "leaf piles", and when you search through them you can find (cocoons?) and pollen grains, and sometimes there're Fairy Rings, which are like a ring of toadstools with a mound of sand in the center.

Welp, see you all on Horse Isle!

(If you're interested in knowing, my username on HI2: Life Cycle is BlueyMousse <- changed it recently)