Overnight on Mysterious Island in the Middle of Bay of Fundy

in the middle of the Bay of fundi Lies a mysterious Place eel hot this remote island is surrounded by the world's largest tides and is steeped in human history and tales of spirits and buried treasure once the sacred Gathering Spot for the migma eel hoot later gained a reputation as a haunted ship killer by European explorers today the island is set to be protected as a National Wildlife Area for its unique bird habitat and cultural significance with full access restrictions to follow ever since I learned about eel hot I've been really curious to see what it's all about while access is still possible with permission the strong tidle currents of the bay and this remoteness make it really difficult to get there but after some heavy planning and some luck we found a weather window that may give us enough time to paddle and spend an overnighter on the island so this is going to be about a 20 km paddle into the Bay of Fundy which has the strongest tides in the world to pull off this trip there's going to be four of us myself Mikey Lucas and Carl the three of them are really good paddlers way better than me I am the liability I would not be able to do this trip without them so high tides at 10:30 a.m. this morning we're trying to get on the water for 8:00 a.m. and so what's going to happen is the flooding tide is going to be going into the bay and we plan on using a bit of that current on a fairy angle and then as the tide Peaks we have an hour and a bit of paddling left and we're going to use that Boomerang to bring us back into the is ofo to get over in our window we're aiming to paddle about 7 km an hour which sounds crazy to me as a canoeist but sounds like that's the thing you can do in a kayak it's a little disorienting cuz we're just paddling towards all we see in front of us is the island but behind us where we started was way over there what's uh where we to Mikey uh 5K and change only 5K eh but we can't we can't miss the island what happens if we miss it I think we go back or phone a friend if it's three knots of current pushing away from the island and we're averaging three knots if we get past it we're we're not necessarily easily getting back to it the biggest concern is is missing the island oh yeah if we miss the island we're we're we're what are we another royally screwed yeah another another four hours and we'll end up in Digby we'll have to learn how to pee and poo in a kayak yeah we're moving slower than we thought are we going a so we'll probably it probably be about 4 hours to get there ping my nuts off over here in the first hour jeez I think we can almost point right at it plus whatever buffer I put in so maybe 8 km but we have to talk in knots we have to do our conversions Mental Math Mental Math while fatigued we have about 8 kilm get to the island we've been paddling 3 hours and we're finally at a spot where we're turning towards it cuz the Tides behind us and we're not worried about missing it having a dry suit is important but I am sweating profusely under here I have a small urge of having to pee but I'm just ignoring it thinking about this Crossing has made me pretty constipated too so I don't have to worry about a number two woo nice wowl oh yeah so good 4 hours 38 minutes and uh 24 kilomet but we needed a slingshot e or or we'd be in Digby that's high tide and then we start getting pushed right Cheers Cheers Cheers all for one and one for all TI and time waits for no man we got here at one point I didn't know if it was going to be possible over 4 hours to get here but it feels really good to touch ground that's probably an earliest thing I've ever done in a SE kayak pretty big Crossing and with those Tides as well a lot of factors in play 17 Troy do maybe 1917 or yeah isah hot is a high Island right in the middle of the Bay of buy and back in the day ships used to crash into this thing all the time I think there was 20 recorded shipwrecks on the west side this also led to rumors of ghost ships haunting the island and buried treasure which led to Decades of treasure hunting but because of the island being such a hazard a lighthouse was eventually built here in 1878 the lighthouse burnt down a while ago and now they put up a tower so it no longer has to be manned isah hot means High Island in French it was named by Samuel Champlain in 16004 I don't know if he crashed landed on the island or he just ended up on the island but 300t Cliffs here this is a basalt rock which means it's volcanic and it's believed that this chunk of rock came from the North Mountain on the Nova Scotia side of the Bay of fundi the Bay of fundi formed about 2 million years ago from Continental rifting the continents got pulled apart and Isa hot got pulled up out with that Rift anyways there's a lot of history here way back from the indigenous then the Europeans and the folklore it's a pretty mysterious [Music] spot oh [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] this is awesome I have my tent Shelter From the wind and a table to boil water and cook dinner it's like having a bachelor apartment out in the woods I think it's time for beer as well funy fog how apropo hopefully by drinking a few of these it'll keep the fog away sea Lev Brewing Company cheers we got some ribey steaks from the canning meat market for tonight we have steak that we cooked on the stove some salad and some potatoes that we baked back [Music] homeo so the plan tomorrow is to get up 6:00 be on the water for 8:00 a.m. again the wind is supposed to pick up to about 30 km an hour and there's a potential for fog tomorrow morning so the conditions are going to be a little tougher than we had today we got to mentally prepare for what might come tomorrow we're going to leave her here I'll see you guys tomorrow we're looking to start this morning around 8:00 a.m. just start about 2 hours before high tide this time we're going to be slungshot out out of the Bay of funy and then on the second half we should be coming back in but our Target is a lot bigger because we're not trying to aim for an island we just got to hit the shoreline winds are going to pick up to about 20 km an hour but to leave the island there's a bit of a tide race that we're going to have to go through there's a lot of standing waves which I'm pretty nervous about we're going to paddle through a tide race and the that's forming off the spit of the island and there's two currents that are coming together so there's opposing forces that are meeting there there's one stronger current and that's pushing over top of the other one and that's creating some standing waves that creates this little tidal rapid into the open Bay order the bigger waves and head toward land woo holy woo once we got through that all that SLO around the island we got slingshotted yeah and we're paddling at like 10 km an hour using way less energy than it took to to go 5K yesterday yeah weing hero woo under 3 hours we paddled 22k today and yesterday it was 4 and 1/2 hourss to go 24K guys that is a wrap we made it back to harborville Safe and Sound thank you so much for watching if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to subscribe and give us a like also if you're in Nova Scotia and want to buy a kayak check out old cre or if you want to rent and do a tour check out Pleasant paddling until next time we'll see you then