ExclusiveOn the Ferry | The Magic Cape - Gnomes and Chipmunks

Have you guys been on a ferry before? You have? Some of you haven't, some of you have. It's kind of cool, isn't it? You can see the skyline. What is the tallest building? Yeah, it is pretty tall. Do you guys know how tall it is? 549. That's very close. It's actually 553 meters. It's around half a kilometer because it's a little over 500. How many humans do you think need to be on top of each other to fit on a CN Tower? Maybe a little less. Let's just say if we have a basketball player who's on average around 252 of them on top of each other to be as tall as that. Yes. What is that white thing beside the... Oh, that's the Rogers Center. Yeah, so that's usually a stadium. It used to be called the Sky Dome. It hosts a lot of sport games and like, for example, the Blue Jays, baseball, also soccer or other sports as well. So if you want to watch sports live, watch it. Are we in a lake, Ocean Sea? Lake. Lake, right? What lake is this? Anyone know? Lake Ontario. Yeah, there's like hundreds of thousands of lakes in the world or even more. So it is still one of the biggest. But in the top five lakes, the Great Lakes is the smallest. What's the biggest one? Does anyone know? Yes, David, that is correct. Lake Superior is the biggest. Now, do you know how deep Lake Ontario is? 15 meters deep. 15? Yes. It's actually 250-ish meters deep. It's very deep. You know, Lake Ontario might be the smallest one, but it's actually one of the deeper ones. It's around half as deep as the CN Tower is tall. Isn't that crazy? The lake, the lake is around half as deep. Not here, but all the way out there. It's very deep. The lake's water, they're fresh water, right? Do you know what fresh water means? Yes, that is not salty water. Yeah, so it's not salty. It tastes like the water you drink from the tap. Isn't that cool? So if it's clean enough, like before the pollution, you can actually drink this straight from this. And another fun fact about the Great Lakes, you know the Great Lakes are such a big water system that once there was a hurricane that formed on here. Did you know that Hurricane Huron formed on Hurricane, on Huron, Lake Huron in 1996, September 11? Yes. It was a subtropical storm. That's one of the only times a hurricane has ever formed on a lake. That's kind of cool. So that's a fun fact you guys should know. All right, guys, we're almost here. We basically arrived. So we can get off the boat when they let us off and let's explore the island. We'll go to the animal farm. We'll go to the lighthouse. And we'll check out the beaches. We'll fly some kites. So I remember, which one of you said there was a shark over there? Let me tell you something about this. So remember we said this was fresh water, right? There's actually no sharks here, even though they're big. Because sharks are a saltwater animal. For example, you won't see any crabs over here or lobsters because they like to live in saltwater, like seas and oceans. The salmon come here and a trout. They come here every fall and they go up the rivers to lay their eggs. October, November, you can see them over there. Crocodiles are freshwater animals, but they don't live here. It's too cold. They live down south. You'll find them down in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. So you have to go down south so that it doesn't freeze over too much. Because if it freezes, the crocodiles die. And you know this lake, it gets really cold in the winter. There is an invasive species called the sea lamprey. It has a lot of teeth and it sucks the blood of other fish. It's actually invasive, though. So it doesn't belong here. It belongs in the sea. So that's the most dangerous. And there's some leeches that can suck your blood. So you got to be a little careful. But generally, if you're on a beach, a sandy place, you're safe. You're not going to have any of these problems. And the sea lampreys, they target fish, not humans. And the city and all the places around the Great Lakes, they're trying to get rid of them because they're pretty bad. Also, the zebra mussel. We have zebra mussels as well. They make the water a little clearer because they eat all the algae and all the other plant life, which is actually not good for this ecosystem because they're invasive species as well. Let's talk about the boat. How long ago do you think this boat service started? I mean, how long ago? 100 years, 200 years? Maybe 20 years ago? Yeah, you're right. Around 200. Exactly 190 years. It started in 1833. And back then, the horses run on the mechanism that propels the boat. So there is a mechanism. It uses a lot of gears. There's some spinning stuff. And the horses would run and propel the gears to propel the propeller in the very back. You see, there's a lot of people around us, right? A lot of people are using this boat. How many people do you think travel on these boats every year? Does anyone have an idea? Yes, Milena. One million. Very close. It's 1.3 million people travel back and forth. Now, that also includes tourists, obviously. A lot of people want to visit the city, and then they take the boat to go to Ireland. Because it's a nice little spot to have a vacation. But did you know that there are actually people who live on this island? They actually have houses here. They live. There's around 700 people who actually live on the island. There's a lot of people who want to buy houses, but it's very difficult. Because there's a limited amount. The government only wants a certain number of people here. But some people love the lifestyle. You're kind of like away from the city. You get to have a lot of... You see a lot of nature. You get beaches on your doorstep. And you have to... But you have to ride the ferry to go shopping, essentially. So it's kind of interesting that people live here.