Exploring an Island - Abandoned Ruins, Giant Trees, Friendly Wildlife.

Where are you going? I want to be friends. I just want to be friends guys. Why are you leaving me? Let's see. So I got the data myself guys. I've already been out here for two hours paddling around fishing. I caught one little perch. If it was anything bigger than it was I would have showed it on camera but it definitely wasn't worth it. Just paddling around this Pesh island in the middle of the Detroit River. So I'm just going to head into the island now into the interior of it. I can actually paddle right into the interior because there's a bunch of inlets. It's actually really cool. Used to be an old, used to be Hiram Walker's old house on the island here and there's been a curse on the island ever since. So nothing has prospered on the island. No structures or anything like that. But watch when we get in here. You guys are gonna be blown away. This is so cool. Gotta go in here under this bridge. This old cement bridge. Different story back in here. Tons of shade. Nice and cool. Very cool spot. you got to check out this water this is detroit river water remember see how clear that is super clear it's like nobody's here in the summertime this area is pretty popular because it's so cool you can do things here like have a fire but you can't do that normally uh collect wouldn't have a fire you can't do that in my county at all but here you can fishing just relaxing there's all some old ruins too an old uh house ruins uh hiram walker used to be uh at least a rum run back with Al Capone back in the day, Prohibition. So he had a house on the island here, a mansion. We can go check that out. Let's go do that. Check out the ruins. This island has some very big trees on it. This is just cottonwood. But look at the branches, or look at the shoots. You got one, two, three, four, five. That's all. Sorry, you can't see. One, two, three, four, five. That's all one tree, really. It's all the same root base. So imagine that wasn't different shoots. Imagine that was one tree. She's a big one. there's the ruins back in here so this is the remains of the house there was like servants quarters and everything um if you look over here i think it says 1915 on it see right there sure that says 1915 that's pretty old regardless of course people have spray painted on it and stuff ruined it but still pretty cool and there's more we'll go check out more there used to be a geocache down in here down in the basement of it i wonder if i could jump this from there to there let's see that was about as anticlimactic as it gets i'll go explore some more there's this over here too these look like slots where either honestly looks to me like where horses would be kept there's long slots made of cement as a foundation i imagine they would have had wooden walls but i really don't know that's just my guess i've grown right into the foundation they're fast growing trees oh there's there's an actual maple uh sugar maple here growing through too yeah i wasn't joking when i said the trees could get big here this is a silver maple and uh you can see just how big it is another one right next to it look at that bad boy uprooted and everything big old trees guys and home to many swan as you saw earlier i'm trying to get a little bit closer to this guy oh it looks like his wing is hurt it's flopped down next to him see that keeps moving it all right buddy what color this water this place really is nice i wonder if there be any fish in this little part it's not very deep at all but it connects to the main channel out there i imagine some little perch would come in here i don't see why not there's a lot of gar long nose gar around here too oh there's a shed or a building over on the other side see it across there it's like a square cement building there are people here grass i think stuff like that If you're sitting at the table, it comes right to you. That's very socialized. Yes, I think it expects food. Of course. The raccoons here are the same. It gets to be a bit much, to be honest. Are there raccoons here? Oh, so many. Really? So many. Or no predators? Nope. That's right. Yeah, you folks have a great day. Nice talking to you. Thank you. You too. I'll take care of your duck. The traitor duck. That was kind of cool. Just met a nice older couple. They're kayaking and picking up trash So that's nice And they brought a duck with them as you saw He's just hanging out next to me Zero quacks you know Zero quacks given right now It's a good day I'm happy I'm out here Nice little escape Little urban escape I'm not going to give you anything buddy all I have is bread And that's not going to be any good for you No sandwich I don't know if you like lunch meat I don't think so What kind of duck is this What the duck I think it's a blue-winged teal What the duck I left my gear all sitting here on the table while I took the camera I went into the woods and I was shooting filming the the ruins and stuff And I had a half a sandwich and a Babybel left in my backpack It is nowhere to be found now so a raccoon came there. They're ridiculous here I'm sure it was a raccoon came and took it out of my backpack I left my backpack open, but if I would have closed it, maybe it would have just eaten through the side of it I don't know Starving I think I gotta go home