Flying to the Isles of Scilly with Skybus (Isles of Scilly Flight report)
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- A big question that lingered over us as we planned our Isles of Scilly holiday was 'how to get to the Isles of Scilly'. The 3 main methods are by the lower cost Scillonian III - a ferry that's notorious for making its passengers very sea sick, a much more expensive plane ticket through the Isles of Scilly Skybus airline, but this would mean getting to fly in a twin otter - AKA a tiny airplane, so novel in comparison to airlines like EasyJet and British airways, or finally, a slightly more expensive susceptibility to seasickness and sheer excitement of getting to fly in a teeny tiny aircraft saw us booking the more expensive, but time saving 20 minute flight. In this video, I'll take you from breakfast in the city of centre in Penzance, to the Skybus minibus transfer from Penzance train station out to Lands End Airport. The airport itself, the safety briefing, the flight over Cornwall's Land's End and the landing on Isles of Scilly St Marys. Once landed at St. Marys, we make our way on foot to our accommodation passing through St Mary's Old town, I'll give a whirlwind tour of our accommodation and our first evening will be spent on Porthcressa beach enjoying a fish and chip take away from one of the food trucks in Hugh Town.
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0:00 Intro
0:43 Brunch
1:51 Penzance
3:12 Airport
4:03 Epic Flight
7:14 Airport to our Accommodation
8:15 Accommodation Tour
10:41 Story of how we're here
14:44 Takeaway at Porthcressa Beach
![[4K, ATC] Scenic flight from Land's End to Newquay Airport](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2nch_TVTx9I/mqdefault.jpg)
If you've been to the Isles of Scilly before, how did you get there and back? Plane like in this video, helicopter, Scillonian, your own private boat, something I've not thought of or did you mix and match? Would you recommend one way over the other? If you're planning a trip, what method do you think you'll go for?
We travelled on the Scillonian in 1962 & 63. The 2nd time, it was so rough, with Atlantic swell, that everyone was seasick, including, so we heard, some of the crew. The ship has a very small draught, so that it can sail between the islands. This means it bobs about on every single wave like a bottle. Take the helicopter!!!
I do often wonder how the Scillonian is able to recruit staff as I think it's amazing that so many people are willing to work on board day in, day out. We tried to leave via the helicopter, but the weather was terrible and ended up being stranded on the islands for a night - it was a bit touch and go with getting accommodation too 😖 Thankfully we got lucky as far as the boat sailing went and I think all things considered, it was a very flat crossing!
@@WhenAdventureKnox You were lucky with a flat crossing! If there is such a thing with Atlantic swell.
I took a seasickness tablet just in case and following the advice from people who live on the islands, headed to the bottom and fell asleep on one of the couchettes. But I'd say I was awake for the first 10-15 minutes, and a good 30 minutes at the end, and from what I can gather of that, we were fortunate... but I agree about the Atlantic swell as I could still feel the rocking despite it being almost flat!
@@WhenAdventureKnox Most probably the new Scillonian Vessel is smoother & fitted with stabilisers.
On the 62 boat, there was a "Ladies room". (for ladies only). Real men don't get seasick. OKAY?!!!!
But I was in such a desperate state that my Father pleaded with the powers that were, to let me in to lie down, to see if that would help. (it didn't). In fact it made things worse, not for me, but for him. As someone who had sailed halfway around the world to Singapore on a troopship in 1941 without even feeling queasy, the sight of a bowlful of my fresh vomit being readily replenished, was too much for even his British Army hardened guts, & he needed a bowl too! I only remember lying down on the couch with a woman's stockinged feet in my face, but I was past caring about anything by that stage. I only wanted to DIE!
Result? Scillonian: 2. Holidaymakers: Nil.
A couple more random Scilly Memories for you: One could sometimes find glass balls on the beach or rocks, often with nylon netting attached, which had been washed up. Allegedly they were floats from French fishing nets that had become detached. Beautiful glass balls, either clear or green. About the size of a melon.
(How big's a melon?) tbc...................
Oh, & the Cornish dialect. Our hosts had a compost heap, (according to our snobby SE English parlance), which they called a "dungpile". Um.........?
We also were given the chance to milk the cow. Vaseline the teat, & SLOWLY slide your thumb & forefinger down, making sure the milk squirt goes INTO the bucket! 2 teats at a time: left-squirt, right -squirt.
However you had to press your head against the (smelly) cow's flank, otherwise she might get nervous & kick.
I didn't want to do that part, so here ended my milking career.
Our milk was delivered each morning in a pail. One day, once we had finished our breakfast, Corn Flakes needless to say, my Father announced, "When I came down to the kitchen this morning, there was a drowned mouse in the milk". As if I need any further incentive to be sick on the Scillonian!
But when you've lived through the war & a Japanese POW camp as he had done, you're thankful for anything.
Foodies? Bah!
Caroline, 👸🌹 Looking forward to watching more of your adventures on the Isles of Scilly. Love watching your airplane ride, 🛩two engines are better than one. Great views and nice weather. Your Airbnb looked fine, sounds like you were lucky to get it. It's not like your going to live there. It's just a place to sleep, cook and shower in. I can't believe the Airbnb market in my little town, there are 91 Airbnb and all booked all the time. The Fish and Chips looks good. I love good fish and chips. We like a place by the ocean in native American village. We also have problems with seagulls. The Gulls go wild when an eagle fly by. Fun to sit and eat and watch the eagles catch their dinner from the ocean. Thanks for the fun videos to come. I love your channel 💖 Cheers 🍷🍷🧔
Thanks for saying the flat looked fine. You're right in that there wasn't really anything wrong with it (except maybe the cheeky requests of us doing a few things to keep people COVID safe, then not giving us any soap 🤦♀️🤣) but I guess it's just when you know what £100 per night could get you elsewhere in the UK, it felt on the expensive side! Sounds like your town is not too dissimilar to the Isles of Scilly when it comes to accommodations being fully booked. I'd love nothing more to sit eating fish and chips and watching an Eagle hunting its prey out in the water. We saw an Eagle on the Isle of Harris very briefly back in 2020. They say the white tailed ones are becoming more common along the southern coast of England, but I'm yet to see one down here! So pleased your looking forward to the rest of the series. This is a series I'm really proud of and I'm really chuffed to see how well the first 2 videos have done in comparison to my normal videos.
Im very glad you had a great flight on that small twin engine Aeroplane also glad you got to your destination without any disruption to your holiday, but just to let you know that I & my Sister flew from Glasgow to Barra which was a great flight then we got a car and went round the lsland & when we came back the girl in the cafe that we had hired the car from gave us the hired car for free after going round the lsland then it was back to Glasgow airport, but just to say that the plane lands on Barra beach, but only when the tide is out, so you might like to go there sometime, - keep safe.
As some one that's starting to travel, after many years, I'm loving these videos. Heading to Jersey, Guernsey, Brittany, West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly this summer. I can't wait.
Wow, that sounds like one heck of a trip. I've still not made it to the channel islands but very much want to work them into one of my school holidays! So pleased you're loving these videos and I hope they've been a bit helpful for trip planning too 🙏
That was really interesting to hear about the booking "system" on the islands. I have long wanted to go and the info is very useful. I hope that being retired my greater flexibility would make things easier. The islands do look wonderful though as does the fish & chips.
Being retired should put you at a huge advantage. Booking things outside outside of school holidays seems much easier and you don't need to be sat there ready to pounce. We also learnt as our trip went on, there were a few people who'd booked trips in 2020 and even 2021, not during school hols, and when they had to press pause due to travel restrictions, they had the freedom of first dibs on when they wanted to visit in the future, and several chose half term without even realising it 'til they got there. I hope this will ease going forward making things that bit easier again! The islands were incredibly special, I understand why people go back year after year. I wish my purse strings would allow us to do the same!
Scilly is wonderful, partly because it's so isolated. Its downside is that it's ...er...isolated ... and difficult to get to and from, as you so vividly demonstrated. The Scillonian risks seasickness, the helicopter is noisy (and frankly helicopters aren't that safe). So plane is the best, but expensive. We flew from Bristol back in the day. The flight cost £199 then and for the same price you could have flown from Bristol to New York!
Helicopters are extremely safe.
I can imagine the fear you felt when asked to take out ALL your batteries haha!! Every vloggers worst nightmare! Fabulous footage of the flight over, you got lucky with the weather and it certainly made the approach and landing look even more spectacular. The landing looking quite bumpy, did you feel much of it? Great story about how you came to book your accommodation, I've never heard of a system like that before - so if you end up going back the same week the following year you may very well meet all the same holidaymakers - it's a bit déjà vu isn't it! Good tip for the seagulls, I'll remember that one!
I love how you get me when it comes to the batteries! 🤣 I was so giddy when I watched by the go-pro footage from the boat back after hiking Cat Bells in the Lake District, but little did I know it would have nothing on the footage I was able to capture on this flight. Its unlike me to allow a clip to play for that long, but it was just too pretty. I feel like I can say this to you as you'll get exactly what I'm talking about, but I was chuffed to see on my retention chart that the continuous footage of the flight actually did really well with the retention, better than any other part of the video! Maybe I've just been editing all the other ones wrong! 🤦♀️🤣 I definitely felt the landing, and there was one significant dip not too far before it where I was filming on my phone and you just hear everyone go 'whoa!' I try to be as rational in my head as possible and tell myself all of these things are needed for the landing to be successful. Don't think our budget would have allowed us to go back next year, but in the end, we weren't offered 1st dibs and I think it's because we saw the flat for sale in an estate agents window and it's likely it will have new owners by then. Had an asking price of £240,000!!! Couldn't believe it
@@WhenAdventureKnox Those retention charts always make for interesting reading! Glad your decision to include the longer clip paid off, it's certainly a spectacular one and I think the voice over really added to it too. Wow property's are not cheap on the island then!
Got a bit emotional as you were flying in and so enthusiastic. Love that place.
St Ives gulls are like no other. So many people feed them - but the council hasn't figured out how to make signs telling them not to.
ps. Self catering means 'bring your own loo roll' - but they probably forgot to put your soap out ( ;
It felt impossible to contain the enthusiasm. People often say it's not about the destination but rather the journey. Too often, I fly low cost airlines, or sit in traffic on the M25 trying to get to a National Park in the UK so I've rarely understood this, but the travels to the Isles of Scilly made me understand how sometimes, a journey can be just as exciting as the destination (and in this case, the destination was equally as amazing!) It's a shame that the council in St. Ives haven't invested in signs regarding the gulls as I imagine it would be beneficial for everyone involved! First time I've come across self-catering which means bring your own loo roll too. I guess because the soap was also missing, I'd assumed both were slip-up's as they were both for the same room. I know for next time 😉
@@WhenAdventureKnox Awww, cool of you to reply.
Very envious you got to Samson. Been Scilly several times - but never made it there. We even took kayaks one year - but it got too windy towards the end of our stay to do that bit.
Also must do the snorkelling with seals trip in the Eastern Isles: they're incredibly tame underwater - like puppies!
Delightful getting a dose of summer on a winter night in my campervan. Thanks ( :
@@offshoretomorrow3346 I remember before I set up this channel being really surprised when people replied to my comments. When the channel is as small as this one, I don't get too many comments so when I do, it makes my day and I love to be able to chat with people who've watched the video! We were very torn over whether to do the snorkelling with the seals or not and chose not to on this trip. A few months earlier, we'd done a snorkelling trip on a boat in the Red Sea and became very seasick which spoilt our experience, and I don't think enough time had passed between that and going to the Isles of Scilly - perhaps one for a future trip though! I'll keep my fingers crossed that you'll make it to Samson on a future trip of yours - such a shame to hear that even when you were ready to DIY the trip, mother nature had other ideas!!! I'm looking out of my window onto drizzle and high winds making it look very cold and miserable out there - I hope in the campervan you're somewhere at least a little nicer weather wise!
Hi there, interesting video. I know Scilly very well, as it was our main holiday destination when I was a kid (1963 to 72), and having been many times since. We always went by boat, and our first journey there was especially memorable. At that time (1963) the plane service was these small biplanes, and I guess both Scilly and Lands End airports were just grassy fields. As we approached St Mary's one of these planes was taking off. We were all watching from the side of the Scillonian, as it failed to get up enough speed, and went down the slope towards the sea, hitting a rock and bursting into flames. Luckily nobody was killed, though the pilot, we heard, was badly injured. It was a horrible accident, but also exciting for a 9-year-old to see, from a distance. I've never flown to Scilly, but just once, in the 1970s, came back by helicopter. Look forward to seeing videos of your stay there.
Wow, what a story of your first ever sailing. Part of me truly understands why you kept going by ferry after that. Amazing that no one died despite an explosion!!! We tried to return to the mainland by helicopter, but sadly the fog had other ideas. It's made for an interesting video, but not like other ones on this channel so not sure how well it will be received. I can't wait to show our island adventures though
We also had holidays in Scilly in 1962,3, & 71. Fancy having witnessed the plane crash! My Uncle had flown the
de Havilland Rapide, the plane used between St Just & St Mary's, & so was particularly interested. This accident spelt the end of plane flights to Scilly. Later the helicopters came into service, thank goodness! Never travel on the Scillonian unless you want to see what you had to eat the week before, & more!
Hahaha, that last comment has cracked me up! Very cool that your uncle flew between the mainland and the islands!
@@WhenAdventureKnox No. He didn't actually fly to the Scilly Isles, but he was the first RAF pilot to cross the Andes in Peru. He flew a de Havilland Dominie, which is what the RAF called a Rapide, dunno why, it was the same plane. Hence his interest in the crash. Although I think the Rapide was a stable aircraft, which is probably why they used it for the Scilly crossing. (I'm desperately resisting the temptation to make a "silly" joke here, which is SO boring, & unoriginal. Yawn). As for seasickness; I was so sick I asked my Father if they could stop the ship! Typical man. If we had to reproduce, the population would soon die out owing to morning sickness alone! Not to mention being split in half during child-birth. But I digress...............beg pardon.
Let's keep this SCILLY! But one thing I discovered on Wiki, (the de Havilland Dominie), was that one of the flights to Scilly was shot down by the Germans! Must have been about 1939, the beginning of WW2.
@@missasinenomine Hi, that's so interesting about your uncle. I was only 9 in 1963, but it was amazing to be passing right at that moment (though the Scillonian doesn't pass too close to the airport so we must have seen it from quite a distance). I was keen to see the site of the crash so that evening we walked over (we were staying at Lunnon, near Porth Hellick) but it was all roped off of course.
Must have done at least 60 trips on the boat, but was only ever seasick once - and that was when it was dead calm. It was rather embarrassing as I was the only one!
Hi Caroline, looking forward to see how these isles look like.
In the meantime it was quite funny to listen the way how the property rental market works there.
For anyone who could afford, it would be a quite wise investment to buy a property there and then make money by rental, given that the rental prices you shown look quite on the expensive side (this is a colloquial expression I learned from your videos... 🤩🤩)
I love that I've unintentionally taught you the term 'expensive side' 🙌 I've never looked into buying property as an investment so not sure what the return would be on it, but we saw the flat we stayed in up for sale (and then with a sold price over it) and the asking price was a staggering £240,000!! To me, that's up there with London prices. We bought a 2 bed flat a good few years ago in zone 3 London and it was about the same price! I'm excited to share the islands with you over the coming months!
That's exactly what I've said to people ,
after visiting there in 2021 . with my brother
it was like being in the Caribbean ,
so when she said the Maldives .
I can understand where they are coming from ..
but we hit the weather right 14 km wind speed and 25 degrees no rain at all we stopped at the garrison campsite in a ready tent for three days and then moved on to the hostel at the other side of st Mary's Island for a further 4 more days .
I have been to penzance loads of times on business bringing tourists to Cornwall and on holiday but never to Isles
Very nice. Last i flew on a propeller aircraft was in 2005 to Lugano 😂😂😂
I've just had to Google where Lugano is, and now I'm left curious to know where you flew from to get there! They're super fascinating aircrafts to be in though!
The DHC 6 Twin Otter the Jeep of the sky's (C) 1964 one of my all time favourite aircraft and that's one of the reasons i want to go to these beautiful islands to fly on one they one is more likely to be the Viking 600 series with up graded avionics and glass cockpit it remains me of 1930s flying as it has no cockpit door and it's rugged but then again it was built to be a bush plane flying into remote airstrips
Oooooh interesting, I had no idea it was built to be a bush plane! But now you've said it, you can see how it would work with remote airstrips. I hope you get to fly on this. Do you have a trip planned to the islands?
Great ❤! Can I repost your videos on another platform?
Hi Emma, thank you for asking. If it's sharing it this video as a link on another website or social media platform, that would be lovely, and thank you for offering. If I could however ask that you do not re-post it please, for example, don't upload it as a new video on a different platform.
@@WhenAdventureKnox This platform can't share the link. Gan Jing World platform.
No problem, I understand. Thank you for your reply. Have a good day.
How are you doing mrs Caroline thank you for sharing your trips with us you are as guide tourists for people around world as always iam gathering main information about places you visited briefly here it’s Isles of Scilly is archipelago of south western of Cornwall one of islands st Agnes is most southern point in Britain being over four Milles six kilometers further south than most southern point of British mainland at lizard total islands five inhabited 140 others . Major islands st Martian, bryher, st anges . Since 1890 islands had separate local authority since passing of Isles of Scilly order 1930 authority had had status county council today known as council of Isles of Scilly. ( Scillonion ) sometimes used for people or things related to archipelago tourism is major part of local economy along with agriculture particularly production of cut flowers. Word means origin derived from native Celtic roots in middle age were known to Europeans navigators some authors claims Latin word related to isles of sun . English civil war occurred there parliamentarians captured by isles to see their garrison by 1651 governor sir John Grenville using isles as base for privateering raids on commonwealth Dutch shipping Dutch and Maarten sailed to isles compensation he declared war in England was during period three hundred and thirty five years war stared between isles and Netherlands there are Cromwell castle, King Charles castle and Isles of Scilly served as place of exile during English civil war among those exiled in 1707 isles were scene of worst maritime disasters In British history when out fleet of 21 royal ships navy ships headed .
Hi Khatoon. I am well thank you, I hope you are too. We made it out to St. Agnes so could say we were stood almost at the most southernly point of the inhabited British Isles, but there's a lighthouse called Bishop Rock that's technically the furthest south and on the same day as visiting St. Anges, we did a boat trip out to the lighthouse too. All of this will be in the next video. You're right about St Martian, Bryher, and St Anges being major islands, but the most major is St. Mary's with around 1,800 people (and the Isles of Scilly have around 2,200 residents in total) and then Tresco is 2nd with around 150 people. I too was fascinated by its rich history, especially with all its maritime links.
Last part of my research there are historic sites on Isles of Scilly bants carn Bronze Age entrance grave , halangly down ancient village,port hellick down burial chamber , innsidigen lower and upper burial chambers, old blockhouse , King Charles castle , Harry wall unfinished artillery fort , garrison tower , cramwell castle. Early governor was Thomas godolphin. There are daffodils effect of sea influences by North Atlantic current abbey gardens . Natural England designated by ales of scilly as national character area as port of 2002 marketing campaign there are too county flower oof island in 1975 islands were designated as area of outstanding natural beauty . Spring tides granite rock , Irish Sea glacier during last ice age . There are two flags used to represent Isles of Scilly registered with flag institute. One school five islands academy available till aged 16 . Radio scilly Isles of Scilly were featured on tv program seven natural wonders as one of south west England since 2007 bbc series island parish . Biggest island is st Mary best to visit st Mary and resco . Isles of Scilly are expensive compared to mainland no car available no parking but freight boat crossing from Penzance takes around two hours and 45 minutes Isles of Scilly owned by duch or Cornwall best isles island is bryher is one of most beautiful islands sorry I thought sky bus the airport bus we get in before go to airplane it’s in England means innovative air mobility concept capacity form 30 to 50 passengers thank you for your giving us chance to read learn new information explore places unknown to us improve our English language as well stay safe blessed bon voyage good luck to you your family friends.
We were pretty terrible at finding the burial chambers, especially since there's so many across the islands. We found 1 ourselves and then had a handful more pointed out on a tour, but a lot of the ones you mentioned, we completely missed! I liked that your research picked up on the Five Islands academy school. That's on St. Mary's and once the children on the other 4 inhabited islands reach the age of 11, they have to go to boarding school, and return home to their families on a Friday before getting the boat back on a Monday morning. In the UK, it's a legal requirement to remain in education until 18, so from 16 - 18, children have to go to the mainland for their education to continue. As a teacher, all of this blew my mind when I was told this by locals. I agree that the islands were expensive compared to the mainland, but the saying of 'you get what you pay for' rings so true in this part of the world. I have no regrets over the money spent on this trip!
I can’t stand that plane 😂 😂 I just find it so noisy and it shakes i prefer the boat on a calm day
I agree that the plane was incredibly noisy. I don't remember it shaking too badly on the flat part, but take off and landing were indeed! I can understand why some people hate the plane!