Journey to the Heart Lagoon. Join us as we take Schooner Sunshine to the remote Mergui Islands of Burma (Myanmar). Stories from a modern expedition sailing s...

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it's time to leave Canada because it's

snowing here

about a sinkhole an island where the

center of it is sunken out of it and

apparently the lagoon in the center is

shaped like a heart

and so the heart lagoon it's called I

remember reading about it years ago

we're on our way there right now

we're gonna swim into this is a good my

understanding is that the lagoon is

completely surrounded by rock you can't

walk into a tent over top of it the only

way to get into it is to swim underneath

through a sea cave and pop up into the

center of this yeah you apparently have

told you about quite a long time to be

able to swim underneath the island and

pop up in the center so we come aboard a

sailing vessel sunshine super yacht

sunshine which is 127 light schooner on

our first trip into the very archipelago

it took a lot of planes trains and

automobiles to get us even remotely

close to the heart lagoon our journey

began in Sydney Nova Scotia I brought us

to Myanmar a country in Southeast Asia

jumping up and down on the floor my

heart is a nightmare mode

and once there wasn't nothing more

it had a song they mouth along the

and okay guy they had a pact dragonfly

but so I can fly

but it came back with the story to say

because she ran down

torch in Chains

is to say

these

traveling through Asia is always

accelerating with so many unique

experiences but we're also excited to be

joining the sailing schooner sunshine

the vessel that would be giving us our

first glimpse of the mayor gwai eyes

thanks for a car

but they were scared

there once was me before we could get

underway we needed provisions for our

trip so he headed back ashore and paid a

visit to the local market because we're

such a big boat we have to anchor in the

commercial Anchorage with all the big

freighters etc and so we come ashore the

most convenient place for us to come

ashore is on these commercial docks and

this one is just so classic yeah you

gotta watch your step on this one it is

pretty much the sketchiest dock I've

ever seen at low tide you go down about

five meters

and the water is just filthy you really

do not want to go in yeah this is

awesome so sketchy

once the galley was fully stopped we are

ready to set sail

so here we are

there's India Sri Lanka Thailand

Malaysia

here's Myanmar formerly known as Burma

and we are right here and the Mergui

archipelago now Hart island that we've

heard of is actually down over here but

we're going to go north for a little bit

and we've heard that on this island here

totally unmarked because the charts here

is a much Miranda's we've heard that on

this island that there's been a bride's

whale washed ashore there and all the

bones can still be found on the beach

and so we got this report with that was

a cool place to go check out so we're

gonna go into this anchorage right here

take the dinghy across and go and see if

we can hike through the jungle and find

a beach sort of into the jungle where

the bones apparently have been washed

ashore

after we'd walked around in the mangrove

swamps looking for the whale bones we

met a local who had told us that they

had moved the bones up into the forest

to protect them from being washed away

in storms they had rearticulated most of

the vertebra and there were even a few

rib bones present one of the fin bones

either the radius or ulna and the upper

maxillary bone from the skull was also

present very cool

once we were back aboard sunshine we

made preparations to get underway and

head south to go look for the heartland

we pulled up some sail and cruised along

under a gentle breeze and watched an

amazing sunset that is until it got dark

then things got a bit interesting Suns

just set and on the horizon I can see

one two three four there's an unlit

fishing boat there there's a fishing

boat there and there's an everywhere

completely normal aids to navigation or

color regulations green lights blue

lights red flashing lights white lights

flashing all over and the worst one was

we just about got into a collision with

a very large probably a fishing boat not

that's not even the navigation life

that's just a light that he's using for

one of the crab traps yes you can see

them on radar but like this one is just

a long tail

you know a thirty or forty foot vessel

no lights navigation lights whatsoever

no they don't come up on on radars fancy

either by navigation lights or on the

radar so you just have to totally look

out all the time so you don't run into

one of these vessels according to our

charts one of these islands is hollow

beyond that jagged rock wall lies the

heart lagoon the next step get inside

with me

join us next time when we trekked

through jungles visit the sea gypsies

and find an uncharted island