We loved Tresco at at the end of our trip when locals asked us what our favourite island was, we weren't prepared with an answer, but said Tresco was up there and people seemed shocked. Do you have a favourite island?
I'm British, 34 years old, now living in Canada. And until today, never knew this place existed in UK! Looks beautiful. The longer I've been away from home, the more beautiful I realise the UK is.
For many years I didn't know these islands were in my own country either - if it's of consolation. Awesome that you're watching from Canada - where abouts? I did a working holiday visa there many years ago, best year of my life!
Hi! Another lovely video showing Tresco in all its glory. Probably my 2nd favourite island after St Mary's. There used to be a landing charge for landing on Tresco, with a chap waiting on the quay to nab anyone coming off the boat, so one time many years ago during a low spring tide I took the boat to Bryher and waded across; it was about knee deep if I remember right. The South of Tresco has the most amazing tropical-looking beaches and of course the amazing gardens, but the north is rugged granite and heather moorland. Cromwell's Tower & King Charles' Castle are worth a visit, and it's worth searching for Piper's Hole, a cave, in the north of the island. Loved the red squirrels and the golden pheasant! Many thanks.
I LOVE stries like yours of wading across from Tresco to avoid the arrival fee. It feels so strange that they used to charge - I'd have thought they'd want the footfall as people would go on to then spend money. Whilst we spent more money on St. Mary's in total (mostly because we stayed there so spent more time there) I'd say Tresco was where we spent the next biggest amount of money! The north of the island does sound lovely with the tower and castle, but equally so do the beaches. Maybe next time around I spend a morning doing 1 and an afternoon doing the other. Like you, I adored the squirrels and pheasant, so unique!
What a pretty little island, looks like the weather was perfecting for taking a walk around and enjoying the scenery. You were right about the standards and appearance being very consistent due to it being managed by one group, they clearly look after the place and put a lot of effort into keeping it nice. Well done with the video of the red squirrels, you did a great job of catching them in their element. Ha had to laugh at the mini mail van - very stylish. Definitely cutting it fine but if you know the boats run exactly to their schedule then you can afford to push it and use every last minute you've got!
I think Tresco was one of the first places to get one of those electric Royal Mail vans. I'd tried to get footage of it travelling earlier in the day but got a terrible shot as it drove around the corner after it took so long for me to get the camera switched on, so was happy to find it sat by the quay towards the end of the day. From the quay, we set a timer to time exactly how long it took us to walk to the 'steps' and worked out how long we'd then have before needing to head back. We did run a little to ensure we were back in time! I could be wrong, but I get the impression the boat captains scan the coastal paths and if they can see people rushing in their direction, I bet they wait... but we were there a couple of minutes early!
Such a beautiful place to visit. The gardens are wonderful but that admission looked a bit pricey. The day looked beautiful and you did well to dodge the crowds. Liked the look of lunch too.
I agree about the price, but my thought process was that unlike the mainland that will get the numbers, allowing for the price to be lower, the Islands just don't get as many visitors and so in order for it to stay in operation, they need to charge more. The offset is that you get the places a bit more to yourself... but I couldn't afford to do all my trips quite as lavishly as this one. I'll do an itinerary and cost breakdown video in a couple of weeks and we recognise the trip wasn't a cheap one!
@@WhenAdventureKnox I must admit that thought justifying the price did cross my mind. Will be interesting to see your costs overall. I used to total up all my expenditures on holiday.
Auto correct is forever trying to tell me I mean to write Tesco's 🤣🤦♀️ I didn't get the opportunity to try any of their ice cream - next time for sure!!!
@@WhenAdventureKnox Only joking Caroline. I'm sure there isn't a Tescos on Tresco. I haven't been there since 1971, 50 years ago! How about a Valhalla sundae?
13:27. Augustus Smith? Or Dorrien-Smith? Or perhaps even a combo; Augustus Dorrien-Smith? My fave island? Well, being extremely biased as we had 2 wonderful family holidays in 1962 & 3 on St Martins, I would say.................................you've guessed correctly! As is often the case in natural surroundings, the location is not always as so important as the weather. Also, it depends on whether you are going to stay on an island, or just visit for a day-trip. St Agnes is the longest boat ride, (if you love or loathe boat rides packed with tourists), to Tresco is probably the shortest. Tresco is famous & hence popular, but Hell's bay on Bryher would be my top spot for a real Atlantic storm! St Aggie good for bird-watching & view of the Bishop. For a stay, the "saints" are probably the best; Mary & Martin. For foodie freaks like you 2 (!), I can't comment, being a 70 year old foodie ignoramus. (where are my baked beans on toast?) The unidentified white fish you ate might have been a deep sea sole or plaice? Just guessing..............
I really loved St. Martin's and would certainly consider staying on that island on a future trip if there was availability, so can understand why you love it so much! I agree with your comment about the weather. We got incredibly lucky on this trip as we appreciate in May Half Term it's not always going to be perfect! I felt like Bryher on our visit was able to give the St. Agnes boat time a run for its money as the tide was so low, we had to travel at a snails pace, and it wasn't helped by some people mistakenly getting on our boat instead of the one to Tresco so we detoured to let them off. But for the longest boat ride, the award has to go to Samson as we had to sail around the whole thing due to low tides. It makes me wonder how bad it gets when the tide's so low that you can walk between Bryher and Tresco!
If you were to fly from Penzance via helicopter, you can land directly on Tresco giving you as much time on the island as we got taking the boat across from St. Mary's if you get the first one of the morning and last one at the end of the day. I believe it's possible with the slowest method of taking the Scillonian, but you'd only have a few hours. On Saturday's in the peak season, I believe the Scillonian sails twice a day, so if you go on a Saturday, you can arrive much earlier and depart at 5.00pm. The Scillonian goes to St. Mary's though meaning you'd then have to catch another boat tot Tresco. A good way to gain a little time and save a little money is to fly one way and sail the other.
How are you doing mrs Caroline thank you for sharing your trips with us explore places unknown to us as always iam gathering main information about places you visited briefly here it’s tresco means island of elder trees it’s second biggest island of Isles of Scilly in Cornwall history of island it’s was in possession of confederacy of hermit king Henry 1 originally name ryn rewyn means promontory of sand dunes in 1193 when island was granted to abbot of tavistock by Pope felestine 111 island was known as st Nicholas island by 1306 called tresco farm of elder trees in 1540 changed into name insciaw island of elder trees. Island administered for crown by duchy of Cornwall. Dorrien smith family descended from Augustus smith tresco is one of five parishes of Isles of Scilly which are also wards tresco is primarily run as holiday resort and islands tourism is important. Landmarks such as English civil war King Charles castle old block house Oliver battery , monument to Augustus smitten, remains of st Nicholas priority tresco abbey gardens Anglican Church because of geography history of tresco has often featured in fiction why whales came by Michael morpurgo featured tresco several times Sam liewelly in. 1999 sea garden storm island by Ann quinton is mystery novel
Hi Khatoon, I'm well thank you, I hope you are too. I had no idea about any of the island's history up until when you mention the Duchy of Cornwall. I definitely picked up on Tresco feeling more like a holiday village island, where as the other ones felt more 'real', home to locals with the odd holiday home dotted in between.
lovely film again..I have to admit Tresco is my least favourite.(.its too perfect) but it does have my favourite Walk..leave the gardens and follow the coast along Pentle Bay, Rushy porth up to the Blockhouse overlooking Old Grimsby..Best Views EVER across to St Helens, Tean, and St Martins .I walk it every single visit!
Based on the reactions of locals when they asked us which island was our favourite and we gushed about our time on St. Martin's, St. Mary's and Tresco, everyone met our 'Tresco' answer with surprise, so I'd guessed that it was maybe on others don't like quite as much as the others. Next time we get out to the Isles of Scilly, I'll be sure to hit up that walk, the views sound amazing and I hope that on a future visit St. Helens or Tean may have a boat go them as when we visited, the uninhabited island that had a scheduled boat was to Samson. Definitely not complaining as I loved it, but would be nice to be able to shake things up a little. Really want to see the 'Pest House' as stories like ones that come from there ring so much closer to home after we've gone through our own version of quarantine with COVID!
You didn't mention Cromwell's castle or King Charles' castle. 60 years ago as a 10 year old, I imagined a gun fight between the Cavaliers & Roundheads at this location, (typical boy - yawn!), & subsequently found a lead shot which I was convinced was a relic from that time! (Most probably from a fishing net. Boooooring!).
No - not boring at all. I love how your imagination as child runs wild like this! Unfortunately we just ran out of time to get up to Cromwell's castle. I know we were very close at the end of the day, but we ran a little along the coastal path in order to catch the boat. It's all on a list for the next time we visit the islands!
Hi Ranjit, yes, dogs are allowed on the island as day visitors (though I think there's only specific accommodations in winter that allow them to stay over) and Pentle Beach on the island is dog friendly too. I hope this helps.
Last part of my research filmography in 1989 bbc voyage or down treader scene of fictional lone island were filmed on tresco in 2010 tresco is setting at London festival film in 1980s tresco used as song location song island lost souls tresco is world famous there are abbey gardens , romantic castle bird watching relaxing island spa prince Charles inherited tresco as part of his duck of Cornwall title . Vallha museum is situated within tresco abbey gardens included collection was started in 1830s by Augustus smith tresco abbey founder of gardens acquired by national maritime museum in Greenwich in 1972 ships rocky coast merchant vessels from middle and end of 19 th century. Red squirrel is species of tree squirrels common throughout Europe Asia in England Ireland Italy numbers have decreased drastically in recent years golden pheasant known as Chinese pheasant rainbow pheasant is game bird. Old grimsby is coastal settlement on island of tresco located on east side of island there are quay southern end of harbour bay is block house 17 th century fort built from attack historically known as north ward there are community center primary school to south west on road new grimsby is hamlet of dolphin town where island parish church is located st Nicholas Church loyalist settler of forty mile Greek in 1870s grimsby resident have village grimsby was incorporated in 1876 became town in 1922 grimsby museum is home of many air facts historical documents as town tell in 1883 restored 1916 grimsby beach thank for giving us chance to read learn new information improve our English language as well bon voyage good luck to you your dearest ones
Your point about 'Prince' Charles inheriting Tresco when he became Duke of Cornwall is interesting as it now has me wondering about whether this is still the case after he's become King. We took this trip to the Isles of Scilly over the Queen's Jubilee weekend, and it's very surreal that in the time it's taken me to edit these and get them onto TH-cam, so much has changed within our monarchy! Funny that you mention the primary school on the island as we learnt later in our trip that children who live on the island of Bryher (just across the water from Tresco) have to take a boat to Tresco island each day as they don't have a primary school! I'm so pleased again that my channel helps you with your English
We loved Tresco at at the end of our trip when locals asked us what our favourite island was, we weren't prepared with an answer, but said Tresco was up there and people seemed shocked. Do you have a favourite island?
Have been lucky to holiday here 4 times ,the most peaceful and restful holiday Wonderful islands ,my favourite is bryer ❤
I'm British, 34 years old, now living in Canada. And until today, never knew this place existed in UK! Looks beautiful. The longer I've been away from home, the more beautiful I realise the UK is.
For many years I didn't know these islands were in my own country either - if it's of consolation. Awesome that you're watching from Canada - where abouts? I did a working holiday visa there many years ago, best year of my life!
A beautiful, tiny piece of England with incredible beaches, amazing scenery, and yet no crowds. What’s not to love. Just booked a trip!
Ah so it is an island full of cottagers, absolutely splendid chaps, pip pip and cheerio
Hi! Another lovely video showing Tresco in all its glory. Probably my 2nd favourite island after St Mary's. There used to be a landing charge for landing on Tresco, with a chap waiting on the quay to nab anyone coming off the boat, so one time many years ago during a low spring tide I took the boat to Bryher and waded across; it was about knee deep if I remember right. The South of Tresco has the most amazing tropical-looking beaches and of course the amazing gardens, but the north is rugged granite and heather moorland. Cromwell's Tower & King Charles' Castle are worth a visit, and it's worth searching for Piper's Hole, a cave, in the north of the island. Loved the red squirrels and the golden pheasant! Many thanks.
I LOVE stries like yours of wading across from Tresco to avoid the arrival fee. It feels so strange that they used to charge - I'd have thought they'd want the footfall as people would go on to then spend money. Whilst we spent more money on St. Mary's in total (mostly because we stayed there so spent more time there) I'd say Tresco was where we spent the next biggest amount of money! The north of the island does sound lovely with the tower and castle, but equally so do the beaches. Maybe next time around I spend a morning doing 1 and an afternoon doing the other. Like you, I adored the squirrels and pheasant, so unique!
Wow Caroline, 👸🌹another amazing island! Thanks for sharing. Love the Red Squirrels 🐿 and Gardens, The food looks good. Chees 🍦🍦🧔
You're most welcome, I'm pleased you enjoyed seeing the island and like me, liked the red squirrels. The food was amazing too - cheers!
Nice tour video, my friend. Love it. 😊😊😊
Thank you, I really appreciate it
Hi there!that garden that you've visited is really beautiful.nice sharing,greetings from spain
Heya, so pleased you enjoyed the video. I too loved the gardens, they were so beautiful
What a pretty little island, looks like the weather was perfecting for taking a walk around and enjoying the scenery. You were right about the standards and appearance being very consistent due to it being managed by one group, they clearly look after the place and put a lot of effort into keeping it nice. Well done with the video of the red squirrels, you did a great job of catching them in their element. Ha had to laugh at the mini mail van - very stylish. Definitely cutting it fine but if you know the boats run exactly to their schedule then you can afford to push it and use every last minute you've got!
I think Tresco was one of the first places to get one of those electric Royal Mail vans. I'd tried to get footage of it travelling earlier in the day but got a terrible shot as it drove around the corner after it took so long for me to get the camera switched on, so was happy to find it sat by the quay towards the end of the day.
From the quay, we set a timer to time exactly how long it took us to walk to the 'steps' and worked out how long we'd then have before needing to head back. We did run a little to ensure we were back in time! I could be wrong, but I get the impression the boat captains scan the coastal paths and if they can see people rushing in their direction, I bet they wait... but we were there a couple of minutes early!
Wow such a beautiful placexx
It really was as stunning as the camera made out
Such a beautiful place to visit. The gardens are wonderful but that admission looked a bit pricey. The day looked beautiful and you did well to dodge the crowds. Liked the look of lunch too.
I agree about the price, but my thought process was that unlike the mainland that will get the numbers, allowing for the price to be lower, the Islands just don't get as many visitors and so in order for it to stay in operation, they need to charge more. The offset is that you get the places a bit more to yourself... but I couldn't afford to do all my trips quite as lavishly as this one. I'll do an itinerary and cost breakdown video in a couple of weeks and we recognise the trip wasn't a cheap one!
@@WhenAdventureKnox I must admit that thought justifying the price did cross my mind. Will be interesting to see your costs overall. I used to total up all my expenditures on holiday.
Avoid cruise ships day trip groups at all cost! 😂 Such beauty and diversity of plants and nature! The low tide event looks fun 😊
This makes it sound like you've had a terrible experience with a visit to somewhere coinciding with a cruise ship being in port
I'm amazed that there are cruise ships at all, as the water is so low at low tide.
Tresco? Now why do I think of a supermarket? Tesco's Tresco's ice cream is the yummiest!
Auto correct is forever trying to tell me I mean to write Tesco's 🤣🤦♀️ I didn't get the opportunity to try any of their ice cream - next time for sure!!!
@@WhenAdventureKnox Only joking Caroline. I'm sure there isn't a Tescos on Tresco. I haven't been there since 1971, 50 years ago! How about a Valhalla sundae?
On my wish list to visit Tresco
A worthy place to have on your list Darren, I fell in love with the place. I hope you get to go soon!
@@WhenAdventureKnox Thank you, your videos bring back memories and ideas for the future. Keep up the good work. God bless
13:27. Augustus Smith? Or Dorrien-Smith? Or perhaps even a combo; Augustus Dorrien-Smith?
My fave island? Well, being extremely biased as we had 2 wonderful family holidays in 1962 & 3 on St Martins,
I would say.................................you've guessed correctly!
As is often the case in natural surroundings, the location is not always as so important as the weather.
Also, it depends on whether you are going to stay on an island, or just visit for a day-trip. St Agnes is the longest boat ride, (if you love or loathe boat rides packed with tourists), to Tresco is probably the shortest. Tresco is famous & hence popular, but Hell's bay on Bryher would be my top spot for a real Atlantic storm! St Aggie good for bird-watching & view of the Bishop.
For a stay, the "saints" are probably the best; Mary & Martin.
For foodie freaks like you 2 (!), I can't comment, being a 70 year old foodie ignoramus. (where are my baked beans on toast?)
The unidentified white fish you ate might have been a deep sea sole or plaice? Just guessing..............
I really loved St. Martin's and would certainly consider staying on that island on a future trip if there was availability, so can understand why you love it so much! I agree with your comment about the weather. We got incredibly lucky on this trip as we appreciate in May Half Term it's not always going to be perfect! I felt like Bryher on our visit was able to give the St. Agnes boat time a run for its money as the tide was so low, we had to travel at a snails pace, and it wasn't helped by some people mistakenly getting on our boat instead of the one to Tresco so we detoured to let them off. But for the longest boat ride, the award has to go to Samson as we had to sail around the whole thing due to low tides. It makes me wonder how bad it gets when the tide's so low that you can walk between Bryher and Tresco!
@@WhenAdventureKnox Bryher's getting dryher? (drier).
@@missasinenomine 🤣🤣🤣 love it!!!
Is it possible to go to Tresco if you do a day trip?
If you were to fly from Penzance via helicopter, you can land directly on Tresco giving you as much time on the island as we got taking the boat across from St. Mary's if you get the first one of the morning and last one at the end of the day. I believe it's possible with the slowest method of taking the Scillonian, but you'd only have a few hours. On Saturday's in the peak season, I believe the Scillonian sails twice a day, so if you go on a Saturday, you can arrive much earlier and depart at 5.00pm. The Scillonian goes to St. Mary's though meaning you'd then have to catch another boat tot Tresco. A good way to gain a little time and save a little money is to fly one way and sail the other.
How are you doing mrs Caroline thank you for sharing your trips with us explore places unknown to us as always iam gathering main information about places you visited briefly here it’s tresco means island of elder trees it’s second biggest island of Isles of Scilly in Cornwall history of island it’s was in possession of confederacy of hermit king Henry 1 originally name ryn rewyn means promontory of sand dunes in 1193 when island was granted to abbot of tavistock by Pope felestine 111 island was known as st Nicholas island by 1306 called tresco farm of elder trees in 1540 changed into name insciaw island of elder trees. Island administered for crown by duchy of Cornwall. Dorrien smith family descended from Augustus smith tresco is one of five parishes of Isles of Scilly which are also wards tresco is primarily run as holiday resort and islands tourism is important. Landmarks such as English civil war King Charles castle old block house Oliver battery , monument to Augustus smitten, remains of st Nicholas priority tresco abbey gardens Anglican Church because of geography history of tresco has often featured in fiction why whales came by Michael morpurgo featured tresco several times Sam liewelly in. 1999 sea garden storm island by Ann quinton is mystery novel
Hi Khatoon, I'm well thank you, I hope you are too. I had no idea about any of the island's history up until when you mention the Duchy of Cornwall. I definitely picked up on Tresco feeling more like a holiday village island, where as the other ones felt more 'real', home to locals with the odd holiday home dotted in between.
lovely film again..I have to admit Tresco is my least favourite.(.its too perfect) but it does have my favourite Walk..leave the gardens and follow the coast along Pentle Bay, Rushy porth up to the Blockhouse overlooking Old Grimsby..Best Views EVER across to St Helens, Tean, and St Martins .I walk it every single visit!
Based on the reactions of locals when they asked us which island was our favourite and we gushed about our time on St. Martin's, St. Mary's and Tresco, everyone met our 'Tresco' answer with surprise, so I'd guessed that it was maybe on others don't like quite as much as the others. Next time we get out to the Isles of Scilly, I'll be sure to hit up that walk, the views sound amazing and I hope that on a future visit St. Helens or Tean may have a boat go them as when we visited, the uninhabited island that had a scheduled boat was to Samson. Definitely not complaining as I loved it, but would be nice to be able to shake things up a little. Really want to see the 'Pest House' as stories like ones that come from there ring so much closer to home after we've gone through our own version of quarantine with COVID!
Completely agree - we thought it was over manicured and unnatural. Almost like some sort of theme park recreation of a Scillonian island.
You didn't mention Cromwell's castle or King Charles' castle. 60 years ago as a 10 year old, I imagined a gun fight between the Cavaliers & Roundheads at this location, (typical boy - yawn!), & subsequently found a lead shot which I was convinced was a relic from that time! (Most probably from a fishing net. Boooooring!).
No - not boring at all. I love how your imagination as child runs wild like this! Unfortunately we just ran out of time to get up to Cromwell's castle. I know we were very close at the end of the day, but we ran a little along the coastal path in order to catch the boat. It's all on a list for the next time we visit the islands!
Can u take your dog on a lead to Tresco
Hi Ranjit, yes, dogs are allowed on the island as day visitors (though I think there's only specific accommodations in winter that allow them to stay over) and Pentle Beach on the island is dog friendly too. I hope this helps.
Last part of my research filmography in 1989 bbc voyage or down treader scene of fictional lone island were filmed on tresco in 2010 tresco is setting at London festival film in 1980s tresco used as song location song island lost souls tresco is world famous there are abbey gardens , romantic castle bird watching relaxing island spa prince Charles inherited tresco as part of his duck of Cornwall title . Vallha museum is situated within tresco abbey gardens included collection was started in 1830s by Augustus smith tresco abbey founder of gardens acquired by national maritime museum in Greenwich in 1972 ships rocky coast merchant vessels from middle and end of 19 th century. Red squirrel is species of tree squirrels common throughout Europe Asia in England Ireland Italy numbers have decreased drastically in recent years golden pheasant known as Chinese pheasant rainbow pheasant is game bird. Old grimsby is coastal settlement on island of tresco located on east side of island there are quay southern end of harbour bay is block house 17 th century fort built from attack historically known as north ward there are community center primary school to south west on road new grimsby is hamlet of dolphin town where island parish church is located st Nicholas Church loyalist settler of forty mile Greek in 1870s grimsby resident have village grimsby was incorporated in 1876 became town in 1922 grimsby museum is home of many air facts historical documents as town tell in 1883 restored 1916 grimsby beach thank for giving us chance to read learn new information improve our English language as well bon voyage good luck to you your dearest ones
Your point about 'Prince' Charles inheriting Tresco when he became Duke of Cornwall is interesting as it now has me wondering about whether this is still the case after he's become King. We took this trip to the Isles of Scilly over the Queen's Jubilee weekend, and it's very surreal that in the time it's taken me to edit these and get them onto TH-cam, so much has changed within our monarchy! Funny that you mention the primary school on the island as we learnt later in our trip that children who live on the island of Bryher (just across the water from Tresco) have to take a boat to Tresco island each day as they don't have a primary school! I'm so pleased again that my channel helps you with your English