Sail To The Middle of Lake Ontario. "Snake Island". If you don't like snakes, DON'T COME HERE!

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Ep125. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we take our son Jake to an Island we have been to before, Main Duck Island. The Island is obviously a misnomer because we never see any Ducks but you can't go 10 feet without seeing a snake. That is the whole reason Jake really wanted to come sailing with us. Not because he enjoys sailing, which he doesn't, but because he loves snakes and we promised him that he would be blown away by how many snakes are on this Island. I always call this Island "Snake Island" and you will see why after you see this episode.
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@esh1319 2 года назад

I would’ve remained on the boat waiting on y’all to return like .. “let me see the footage” 🤣🤣🤣

@mandipurcell8877 Год назад

I thought this was gonna be about the ACTUAL snake Island but it's still good.

@combellack1 4 года назад

Nice to see someone who knows how to handle snakes, if your chill with them they will ussually be chill with you. Nice handling Jake

@Bowmans-Woods 4 года назад

Yes, Jake loves snakes and has not problem handling them. He has been bitten many times when first trying to catch them. He just doesn't care. Not my thing though. ;-)

@Shashwata 2 года назад

Jake is so confident on his skills.

@rohaymico 3 года назад

I love an overnighter at Duck island. Last time we were there the gang rearranged the docking to give us space and threw a great mini "Burning man" festival ! Sailors can be a crazy bunch once isolated from the mainland! Great content here by the way!

@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад

Yes. Once you are way out there and there is only limited dock space, people can be very helpful and accommodating

@OzzieTech 6 лет назад

great footage. Def a island I will cross of my visit list ;)

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Consider it my public service announcement. Don't dock at Main Duck Island and expect to see any ducks. The snakes must have ate them all. Not a single duck to be seen. LOL

@jayme6137 4 года назад

Nice Island looks fun, that corn snake was in fact a juvenile eastern milksnake!

@Bowmans-Woods 4 года назад

Thanks for the info!

@peterkent9234 6 лет назад

, long winterhello kids !it's that time of the year hooray! I'm really looking forward to this season

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

It was a long winter. We cant wait for the summer. Let hope it is much warmer and drier than last summer. We want to be able to swim a lot more and we didn't use our floaty chairs even once last season. It was just too cold to sit half submerged in the water drinking and floating last year.

@michaelbrownlee9497 2 месяца назад

I visited there, loads of wild strawberries. Kept waiting for an easterlie storm too come through and be on my way. Stayed for 4 days, with all the boaters.No idea about the snake infestation until i saw a massive what looked to me to be a coral snake and beelined it back to the boat, never too venture out on the island again.

@KyleG0211 6 лет назад

I'm with you! Snakes and I do not mix! Would have been a short visit for me LOL

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Ha Ha. I am ok with looking at them but no way am I picking one up by the tail as it lunges to bite me.

@JohnnyJohnson2136 6 лет назад

Man oh man I love your boat!!!!

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Thanks John.

@wilfdarr 6 лет назад

Not something I'd have as pets, but we used to play with garter snakes all the time back home. Only ever seen the yellow stripes though, that orange one was beautiful. Cute in their own way. Awesome video. Thanks for sharing it!

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Thanks Wilfred.

@Mr59J 5 лет назад

12:56 you sure that's a corn snake? Looks like an Eastern Milk snake to me, they can be easy to mix up. That island is an absolute dream! Thanks for the video :)

@Bowmans-Woods 5 лет назад

You are very welcome. I have no idea about snakes. Jake is the guy to ask about that. I think all snakes are pretty creepy looking so I don't ever stand around to study them. ha ha

@martyjackson4806 6 лет назад

It looked like you sailed out of Treasure Island Marina. From what I remember sailing from there last summer anyway. Nice marina. We enjoyed our stay on our Siren 17. You weren't kidding snakes! My wife would kill me if I took her there.

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Ha Ha. Ya my wife is not afraid of anything. She is cut from a unique cloth. It was Treasure Island. This year we are moving our boat to be moored out of Portsmouth Olympic Harbour in downtown Kingston. It should be great being out of there. Treasure Island is sort of in the middle of nowhere.

@mitcht1324 3 года назад

Nice footage of a beautiful island! Thank you for sharing. I also would love to explore this island to see the snakes. A few things I want to point out though. At 10:55, that's another Eastern Garter. At 11:48, I got a good laugh! That was close, glad she didn't get bit lol. At 12:55, that's an Eastern Milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum). Corn Snakes do not occur in Ontario.

@Bowmans-Woods 3 года назад

Thanks. I know nothing about snakes and prefer to not really even tough them so I am clueless about which snake is which. Jake could have been making up random names for the snakes and I would have believed him. ha ha. Janice was really lucky to not have had her face bitten. Close call.

@mdorris71 6 лет назад

Jake is at home there. Very cool. Interested in how the late arrival worked out. With all the wind and fetch from the North he would have to go into Schoolhouse Bay. One or maybe two boats can anchor there on a very short scope and tie off to land. Otherwise you would all be forced to allow him to raft off you at dock. At 7pm there isn't anywhere else to go unless you send him/her out into the lake at night.

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

He tried to anchor and then tie his stern to the dock. But that didn’t work. So he ended up just anchoring in that little bay beside the docks. I’m not sure what his draft was but I am pretty sure the way he was swinging and then stopping he was hitting bottom. At least in there it’s all mud so he wasn’t doing any damage to his keel.

@combellack1 4 года назад

at around 13 minutes in that is an eastern milk snake rather than a corn snake but such a beautiful little creature. want to visit this island.

@Bowmans-Woods 4 года назад

If you like snakes, this is the Island for you. They are everywhere!

@zunairahbaig2630 4 года назад

I love snakes smmmmm Im actually going there tomorrow so wish me luck in finding something..........

@brunochn4058 6 лет назад

Hi Graig! Funny thing about Snake Island... Last week I was not so far from you (LA, CA) so to speak and we went to visit, upon the continuous request from my elder Son a snake museum... Wasn't so proud demonstrating my "Daddy's-there-so-no-worry-son-everything-will-be-alright" posture.... I definitively got a negative attitude toward these animals... Back today on safe ground... Regards from Beijing. Bruno

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

People tend to fall into 2 groups. People like Jake falls in a smaller group that love snakes. And I fall into the other bigger group that can definitely do without them. 😜. I’m ok watching them from a distance. But to grabbing and holding. 😳

@brunochn4058 6 лет назад

Do you mind to add me to your group ;-)

@brunochn4058 6 лет назад

Pity I can't post a picture taken last week in LAX where my 10 yo Son, sight impaired, is playing with this creature....

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Join the Cruising Off Duty facebook page and I am sure you can send me messages and photos there. Much better way to interact than here in the YT comment section.

@KasimirStanley 3 года назад

I had a bad experience when Reptilia came to my school way back in the day 😂. Anyone else from Toronto area know about them?

@Taboollc 6 лет назад

Awesome sailing adventures ! Do Y'all soSAILize ? Havent seen any of yr videos there !

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

You mean like drink and socialize on other people's boats? Sundowners etc? We love doing that and if you watch our first season on the Ottawa River, we did that all the time. Being our first season on the St Lawrence, we really didn't have that many close friends in the area and the waterway is soooo huge that you never seem to meet up with boats you know. Everyone heads off at different times in different direction. The Ottawa River was easier to socialize because we all ended up at the same 2 or 3 anchorages over and over so we knew everyone. But Yes we do love to hang out and SoSAILize with people.

@websurfer44 6 лет назад

Your son knows his snakes! Craig you did very well at controlling your natural fear of snakes to take video.

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Ha Ha. Thanks! I am fine with filming and watching snakes but if Jake had told me he was going to put one near my face, I would have gone running and screaming, like a little girl. ha ha. Did you see Janice almost get bitten in the face? That is the thing I dont want to have happen to me.

@jokervbatman5023 3 года назад

That bite scared the shit out of me it almost got her on the face

@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад

Yep, too close for comfort.

@ConchRepublic2047 3 года назад

Such and underrated channel!! You deserve so much more views!

@Bowmans-Woods 3 года назад

Glad you think so! Thanks MineFrontz

@ConchRepublic2047 3 года назад

@@Bowmans-Woods any time!

@ConchRepublic2047 3 года назад

@@Bowmans-Woods what makes it even more interesting I live on Lake Ontario here in Upstate New York!

@FlyingCanada 2 года назад

What's the exact location? Is it near to Toronto downtown or goergina?

@SailingPauHana 6 лет назад

Do the snakes make your hand stink when you handle them?

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Yes, from what I have been told but I am not planning on touching any so I will have to take Janice's and Jake's word for it. ha ha.

@fordmckeown2806 6 лет назад

Jake should work at lil rays

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

He likes that place. He would be OK working there. Its a bit far from where we live though.

@keirkeir9859 3 года назад

Please do a timber island video! i want to kayak to that one.

@Bowmans-Woods 3 года назад

Timber Island? I will have to look that one up. There are 1600 islands in the thousand Islands plus a bunch on Lake Ontario so its hard to know the names of each.

@keirkeir9859 3 года назад

@@Bowmans-Woods Ya sorry, it is a large island just of the south east shore of prince edward county.

@kevinflood7495 5 лет назад

Are youse still in canuck waters? How far out is duckvisland bud?

@Bowmans-Woods 5 лет назад

This Island is still in Canada. Lake Ontario is 1/2 in Canada and 1/2 in the USA.

@emilyrecord2536 3 года назад

hi larry

@Bowmans-Woods 3 года назад

Im guessing you know Larry?

@michaele1278 3 года назад

Good lord, no thanks. I can't believe this is in Canada.

@Bowmans-Woods 3 года назад

It is some sort of strange island. How is there enough food for all those snakes to eat? It is insane.

@unclemuir 6 лет назад

Jake of the jungle should make a trip to San Diego. My buddy is always finding something in his yard. Does Jake like coyotes?

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Im sure he would be fine with it. He has a trap and helps neighbour (humanly) catch groundhogs and skunks that infiltrate people's porches etc. Anything that creeps or crawls, he is good with. I'm not a fan of snakes.

@unclemuir 6 лет назад

I don't care for snakes either. Some kids grow up playing with snakes, not in my house we grew up working on racecars, boats and planes. And my neighbors thought my family was strange.

@peterkent9234 6 лет назад

sleeping in a tent great, im a jealous oldman

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Really? I was thinking..... No thanks to sleeping in a tent in a field infested with snakes. I was very glad I got to sleep in a sailboat with a door. Plus using a head (toilet) that didn't require me to walk through the grass filled with snakes was a plus for me to stay on the boat.

@wilfdarr 6 лет назад

So when's this camera showing up on the tech channel? 😁

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

The G7Xii (good at low light) and the Panasonic GH5 (good at slow mo and cinematic shots) were both used in this episode and I did do an episode on my cameras on my Average Tech Fan channel. I am happy with both those cameras although the G7X is a little beat up. It gets used a lot for my Vlog portions.

@wilfdarr 6 лет назад

Duty Cruising Off Duty 😜 I know, I watched it with my wife, but I didn't see a link pop up, no link in the description. All I saw was "My super awesome camera makes it look way brighter than it is: suggested video-transatlantic crossing" 🤔 Interesting choice. Just saying 🍻

@chasemixon6327 6 лет назад

that's an island I do not care to visit... LOL #NotMe

@Bowmans-Woods 6 лет назад

Other than the Snakes it is a very pretty Island. I am not a fan of the snakes though. A couple of snakes is acceptable but they were everywhere! You couldn't go 10 feet without seeing at least 1 snake. Had it not been for Jake really wanting to go, I would have suggested a different location.

@fslt1489 3 года назад

11:48

@vangavolukanna 22 дня назад

scary

@Bowmans-Woods 20 дней назад

Ya. Snakes are not really my thing

@hightower6645 5 лет назад

That place should be renamed "Snake Island."

@Bowmans-Woods 5 лет назад

Oh for sure.

@SimilakChild 4 года назад

I thought you needed some sort of permit to travel to the toronto islands? apparently being an ontario citizen is not enough.

@Bowmans-Woods 4 года назад

This is not a Toronto Island. In the middle of the lake so very far from Toronto. Did we mention going to Toronto Island in this episode? It's been a while since I made it. There is a marina at Toronto Island so you can always pay for a slip there. Not sure what permit you are referring to? For anchoring at the Island?

@gary7vn Год назад

"Infested" No that would be the humans there.

@mikeyg6631 5 лет назад

What's the soundtrack called

@Bowmans-Woods 5 лет назад

Sorry. Not sure. So many songs in my videos.

@JohnRambo5541 10 месяцев назад

SnakesMan

@Bowmans-Woods 3 месяца назад

Ya. Snakes are not my thing. Glad I was sleeping on a boat and not in a tent.

@hot00head00red 3 года назад

Any poisonous snakes you gotta worry about? Water snakes are usually poisonous

@Bowmans-Woods 2 года назад

I don’t think any are deadly? But I don’t want to test that theory.

@gocards798 3 года назад

Did you find any pit vipers there? I’ve heard that that’s why this island is so dangerous because of the overpopulation of this super venomous snake. Maybe it’s changed idk

@ctins72 3 года назад

this is Duck island in Canada, no venomous snakes. Only one venomous snake is in Ontario, Canada and is Massasauga rattlesnake. It is a threaten species and only found in a small area on mainland and avoids humans. You are thinking of another island way south, I recall a video on line you might have already watched. 17 species of snakes here in

@gocards798 3 года назад

@@ctins72 oh. That’s my bad I was thinking of the snake island in Brazil. Thanks for the info

@Bowmans-Woods 3 года назад

I called it "Snake Island" because of all the snakes everywhere but it's actual name is Main Duck Island. These snakes are everywhere but are mostly harmless. I still don't want to get bit and it is just creepy as hell.