Remarkable Off-Grid Cabin with 360° Views of the Ocean

We're on the ocean off Nova Scotia, Canada to get to one of the coolest cabins I've ever seen. It's a three-hour paddle from the closest town and sits on a 50-acre island off a remote stretch of coastline that's notoriously known for having rough seas. Our obsession with this place began last summer when we stumbled upon it during a sea kayak trip and ever since then we couldn't shake the urge to learn more. After a lot of research I eventually connected with the owner and it turned out he's a super nice guy and a really interesting man as well. He's a sailor, he's a writer, he's a man full of stories and he graciously allowed us to go back and spend some time on his island. It's about a quarter mile cut trail to get to the cabin which sits at the highest point of this island. Home sweet home. The owner bought this island and moved him and his wife and his stepson here where they built this off-grid cabin and lived here for a full year. Are you kidding me? Look at the size of that cloth compared to my head. And he's got a big head. And I got a monster head. There's like two chicken breast worth of lobster in there. So many different types of books. We are on the second floor of this cabin and this is the money spot. This is where we'll be spending most of our time. So much natural light which I love in a place. The sink they made out of a whale jawbone. Everything in here has its own unique design. It's incredible. I'm sure we're going to find a lot more little cool things as we as we explore It's turning out to be a really nice day. We're gonna pack a day bag and go explore. We're really lucky. It's the first day of October and there's essentially no swell and not a lot of wind. So it's perfect conditions to get out. When we landed yesterday all this was above the water. Now we're pretty much at high tide. All right. What shall we do today? I'm hoping we're gonna have enough time to get into the water later to do a little underwater exploring because even here the water quality you can see at least 15 feet deep and the main rock here is granite which is really white and it just pops. we came around this corner and there's this cove and we found this beach. It's like a paradise back here. Shelter from the wind. Endless sand. Also I'm seeing bobcat tracks on the beach which is pretty cool. It's hard to believe it's October 1st today and it's t-shirt and shorts weather. We might get a sunburn. Wild. We have some maran and cheese and meat and hummus and mustard some peppers you gonna be mussels they're gonna be where there's a little more turning water. So right at that point where it's sort of like sloshing a bit. Let's sort of peek our noses out there. All right the water was really warm for us. Again it's October 1st. It's getting into the colder conditions but compared to a couple months ago it's pretty similar. We weren't out there too long. We just went out there to look for some mussels. Though we did find some really nice walls with some kelp forests a lot of the fish a lot of those perch and some pollocks. But we only got one measly mussel. It's a very nice mussel but it's not going to be good enough for dinner tonight. We're going to do a little fishing to see if we can catch some mackerel and if not we're going to be eating vegetarian tonight. Oh a pollock! Dinner tonight we're doing a Thai coconut milk noodle dish. We forgot the coconut powder. We're gonna have to do a bit of a pivot. Add some yellow curry paste. Big old dollop of it. Maybe a little more. It's good. I think we're like regardless of the lack of coconut milk I think what really does it is the amount of raw ginger in here. It just overpowers everything. You don't really like it eh? No. We're just cleaning up getting ready to leave and I wanted to show you I wanted to give you a demonstration of this kitchen sink. It is a whale bone jaw and the way it's set up is the water goes down into the jaw and then out a tube and the tube goes out. It fills with water and then with the pulley you pull it off the block and allow it to lower and then all the water flows out. The owner told us there is a well on the island and we're going to try to find that to fill up that jug that we were using to wash our dishes. Might be where the coffee cup is over here. That's probably it. What? That's it. No. Yeah it is. This is it. This is it. That's the well. Yeah. I don't think it's the right spot. I think it is. The way he explained it like it was like a natural hole that had fresh water even though the water looked like it was really nasty. Freaking black. Maybe we just use our extra water. Yeah. A little more stained than we were thinking. We have extra water that we brought with us. We're just going to use that to refill the jug. Another thing that we haven't showed you guys yet is the small fishing shack that was at the entrance beach. There used to be a wood-burning stove there. There's a sink. The bare necessities. Some cool finds on the island. Definitely a spot you could stay. Another funky thing about this spot. I'd say one of my favorites is the outhouse built with a whale bone. It seems really old. Hopefully I don't fall in. The bone's a little narrow. I really gotta fit my junk really far back. It's sort of, it's a little weird. The butt placement. The bone fits my butt perfectly. I guess now I could say I pooped through a whale bone. Just like that, we're off. It's about a two to three hour paddle back to where we parked the car. We'll see another beautiful day and we're going to enjoy every paddle stroke.