Hey everyone. I am back for day two of our Canada week, our trip through Canada, and I'm here with

Jesse Brown, the host of the podcast Canada Land. How you doing, Jesse?

I'm doing well. How are you, Dylan? I'm good. I'm really

good. So yesterday we began in Winnipeg in Central Canada at the edge of the prairies and today we are going east all the way

past Ontario, past Quebec to Nova Scotia to actually an island off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Yeah, this is an island that is just a few hours from the city of Halifax,

but it feels like another world.

There are a few people who live on this island but if you want to visit it you need to take a ship or charter a private plane and you need to follow a very strict set of rules.

Yeah, this is, it is actually a teeny tiny island, but it also has this very big story happening on it.

And it totally captivated me. So here is that story. There's a small island off the coast of eastern Canada that goes by the name

the graveyard of the Atlantic. Over 350 shipwrecks have been documented there, going back as far as the 16th century.

The combination of bad storms, heavy fog, and tricky currents have made this little island an incredibly dangerous place

for sailors passing by. Its real name is Sable Island. It is a narrow crescent-shaped

sandbar just about 12 miles square in total, and it's very sparsely populated.

Only a handful of researchers and park employees live there.

The shipwrecks, the fog, the deep isolation.

It all makes Sable Island feel like something out of myth.

But it is the island's non-human inhabitants that truly make the place

legendary because Sable Island is infested. Not with bugs or rats. Sable Island is infested with feral horses,

hundreds of them. They are small but majestic. They have a thick and woolly coat in this wide spectrum of blacks and browns.

They are photogenic. They're also inbred and full of worms with teeth worn down from eating sandy things.

It's one of the few feral horse populations in the world that live entirely unmanaged and free of modern veterinary care.

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