Hello! If you go at low tide you can miss that bit from the beach going up through the woods, instead you can walk round the rocks (you had incoming tide) and you come up by the tower, old church on St Helens beach, we call it the 3 beach walk, Seagrove, Priory and the Duver. Always feel like Robinson Crusoe when I get on Priory Beach. My friend told me when I moved here that it was posh, I said it's not, it's lovely locals, then I sent her a pic of the mobile phone mast and she said "See! It is posh!" :)
Yes cool dude. I managed to do that a few months later in this walk: th-cam.com/video/ehlPtixjQg8/w-d-xo.html it was beautiful. Seaview is definitely posh. Ha.
Sophie DAwes is a relative of ours...along with a few other St Helens' families. My great Grandmother lived at Rickson Villa and her sister lived next door.
Hey Marek, nice to see you stomping around my old turf. You forgot to mention the fun fair that would visit the village green each year! Back in my day you could definitely walk in the wooded area from Priory Bay to Nodes point and there was a decent enough path. However, I suspect that footpath is only really suitable in the summer as I do recall it be a mud fest in the winter. Stay cool.
Late to the cool dudes' party! Always enjoy a new walk upload - especially the Isle of Wight ones. Loved the expletives while clambering up from Priory bay while questioning the guidebook's author's credentials - classic Marek!
I think the lessons we learnt here are (1) Leave earlier so you don't return in the dark, and (2) don't listen to other people that write walking books (as I've often experienced to my chagrin). One positive was that lighting your face with your phone gave you an eerie pallor, something you could easily replicate on a ghost walk. Thanks Marek, Cool Dude #23
Thanks Cool Dude #23. You are correct about leaving earlier, also I should always check the date the book was written. I think the walk could have been from 2014. These are two things I have learnt that I will no doubt ignore.
dark by 4.40pm... yeah maybe I'm not so keen on moving back to Blighty just yet. But you're right - always go for a walk! thanks Cool Dude for another great video.
Loved it, we all watched together with our dinner tonight 🤣👍 we've tried a few times to get from St Helens to priory Bay and still not found our way......seems to be within the Bermuda triangle of the Isle!? Lol one day we'll make it...... 🙌😊
I love anything you do in isle of wight, particularly bembridge, me and my family go there for holidays the last few years and one of my favourite places and particularly with lockdown this is a nice substitute for not being able to go, so exciting seeing the high street and the lifeboat station. Thanks so much Marek!
Lovely walk , tricky walking when you have limited daylight hours. Also dislike losing the path . But that part of the coast path you feel like you are on a deserted island 🏝
I walked a slightly precarious walk round from the harbour at Bembridge to somewhere by the crab & lobster many years ago. Used to know someone who lived on Rolfs close. Cheers Marek👍
Hi Marek, #163 here. When I was a youngster my parents used to take me to the Island for holidays each year and I seem to remember that there was a model of Sophie Dawes in the Brading Wax Work Museum. She was a buxom waxwork wearing a very lavish dress and I think that her chest used to move as if she was breathing. Used to love the waxworks and, being a young lad, always gawped at the one of the nude maid in the attic :)
Yes the Waxworks were amazing, so sad they have gone. The scariest one was the bloke asleep in the taven with the door opening and the hand with the knife of the bloke who was going to murder him. Terrifying when you knew the murder took place in the very building. Also Death playing the organ and gradually turning round to look at you was traumatising. Cool Dude #17 has got a video of it in 2008 - th-cam.com/video/dVdCqyVrM9Y/w-d-xo.html
@@cdwc Hey, that's me - thanks Marek! 💙 I'm gutted that I didn't take more videos back then. I'd just started archiving island stuff and cheap cameras weren't as good as they are now so I always took photos instead. Regret it now. Some wise words in your video today: always go for a walk! I spent the weekend moping about the house and I know I would've felt 100 times better if I'd just gone outside for a wander.
@@cdwc I had totally forgotten about the organ playing skeleton! That used to scare the shite out of me as a kid - I bet I have a nightmare about that tonight as I had obviously erased it from my memory until you just popped it back in there. Will check out Cool Dude #17's video and most probably make a mess in my pants. Cheers dudes - Stay Cool!
@@cdwc Don't pretend you weren't a scoundrel and a vandal and a pyromaniac in your youth, my dude. 😜 (We were the teenagers who took bin bags to clear up after ourselves, if that makes you happy, haha).
The author of that book obliviously just got as far as the beach and couldn't figure out how to get off it so made the rest up. I did enjoy the ghost story though and the satellite tree was pretty cool.
there is a path from priory bay but its not very well sign posted and is easily missed. its just before you get to the old sea wall thats falling down. very muddy this time of year i would imagine :-)
Thanks dude. I went back near the Priory Hotel and walked down one that was blocked off but it was so muddy. Will investigate further in better weather.
Me and my Husband got lost and had to scramble round that same bit but we were on the slippery rocks near the water, absolutely crapping ourselves that we'd never get out of there...we obviously did in the end 😆
I can safely say the path you couldn't find is the worst path I've ever walked. Dont ask me to explain where it is as all I can say is up a steep muddy slope amongst the trees (and that was in August)😁😁😁 Great commentary as usual.
Absolutely. Always go for a walk, it is good for your physical and mental health. Maybe the land was not private at the time the author wrote the book.
Hmmm... Where can you get a antenna metal tree from? It looks a bit like a kauri tree which is suffering from kauri dieback at moment in NZ from disease bought in on our shoes into forests. The government spends a lot on controlling it here mostly by building high tech shoe disinfectant spraying stations and raised timber walkways in every forests or bush walk. So here’s my plan... I work with the government here to replace all the kauri with antenna trees. Then as a side affect we’d all get really good tv reception service here as well as no one would ever know we humans killed all the kauri accidentally with our stinky adidas trainers. Brilliant huh.
I always used to stay at Stonewood camp, when St John ambulance used to hold their South western area camp there every year.
Hello! If you go at low tide you can miss that bit from the beach going up through the woods, instead you can walk round the rocks (you had incoming tide) and you come up by the tower, old church on St Helens beach, we call it the 3 beach walk, Seagrove, Priory and the Duver. Always feel like Robinson Crusoe when I get on Priory Beach. My friend told me when I moved here that it was posh, I said it's not, it's lovely locals, then I sent her a pic of the mobile phone mast and she said "See! It is posh!" :)
Yes cool dude. I managed to do that a few months later in this walk: th-cam.com/video/ehlPtixjQg8/w-d-xo.html
it was beautiful. Seaview is definitely posh. Ha.
Sophie DAwes is a relative of ours...along with a few other St Helens' families. My great Grandmother lived at Rickson Villa and her sister lived next door.
That is cool bit of family history to have.
Of I recall, the Vine Inn does a nice pint and a curry. 😋
Hey Marek, nice to see you stomping around my old turf. You forgot to mention the fun fair that would visit the village green each year! Back in my day you could definitely walk in the wooded area from Priory Bay to Nodes point and there was a decent enough path. However, I suspect that footpath is only really suitable in the summer as I do recall it be a mud fest in the winter. Stay cool.
I will check it out again Cool Dude #247. I did talk about the bonfire night as well but it didn't make my edit.
Great video Marek! Have you ever thought of writing your own walking book?
Great walk Marek, i must admit i loved the "tools" joke, lol.
Nice one thanks dude. To be honest I thought they were real tools until I touched them.
This popped up in my “recently uploaded” 3 years is recent? Weird!
Thank you Marek.
My pleasure cool dude.
Late to the cool dudes' party! Always enjoy a new walk upload - especially the Isle of Wight ones. Loved the expletives while clambering up from Priory bay while questioning the guidebook's author's credentials - classic Marek!
I think the lessons we learnt here are (1) Leave earlier so you don't return in the dark, and (2) don't listen to other people that write walking books (as I've often experienced to my chagrin).
One positive was that lighting your face with your phone gave you an eerie pallor, something you could easily replicate on a ghost walk.
Thanks Marek,
Cool Dude #23
Thanks Cool Dude #23. You are correct about leaving earlier, also I should always check the date the book was written. I think the walk could have been from 2014. These are two things I have learnt that I will no doubt ignore.
Good to see St Helen's & The Duver again. Another great video.
I have been painting the church today for you.
Hi, that's great, thankyou very much.
My watercolour painting of
Old St Helen's Church, Duver is excellent. Thankyou very much. Stay Cool.
dark by 4.40pm... yeah maybe I'm not so keen on moving back to Blighty just yet. But you're right - always go for a walk! thanks Cool Dude for another great video.
No worrie cool dude.
Loved it, we all watched together with our dinner tonight 🤣👍 we've tried a few times to get from St Helens to priory Bay and still not found our way......seems to be within the Bermuda triangle of the Isle!? Lol one day we'll make it...... 🙌😊
I am going to go back and try it again soon.
Low tide....easy👍🏻
I have been on the Island for years and I don't think I have been down that bit either. Thanks for showing it to me, might just give it a go...
It is a good walk, well worth it.
I love anything you do in isle of wight, particularly bembridge, me and my family go there for holidays the last few years and one of my favourite places and particularly with lockdown this is a nice substitute for not being able to go, so exciting seeing the high street and the lifeboat station. Thanks so much Marek!
Nice one dude. Glad you like them.
Lovely walk , tricky walking when you have limited daylight hours. Also dislike losing the path . But that part of the coast path you feel like you are on a deserted island 🏝
Another super walk and vid. Always cheers me up..... a bit.
😄🙂😄😎👍
Nice one Marek.... all the best.
Nice one. Thanks Steve.
Great job cool dude number 1
Thanks cool dude.
That Priory Bay looks well nice
It is pretty spectacular.
I walked a slightly precarious walk round from the harbour at Bembridge to somewhere by the crab & lobster many years ago. Used to know someone who lived on Rolfs close. Cheers Marek👍
That walk to the Crab and Lobster is usually OK. Stay cool.
Hi Marek, #163 here. When I was a youngster my parents used to take me to the Island for holidays each year and I seem to remember that there was a model of Sophie Dawes in the Brading Wax Work Museum. She was a buxom waxwork wearing a very lavish dress and I think that her chest used to move as if she was breathing. Used to love the waxworks and, being a young lad, always gawped at the one of the nude maid in the attic :)
Yes the Waxworks were amazing, so sad they have gone. The scariest one was the bloke asleep in the taven with the door opening and the hand with the knife of the bloke who was going to murder him. Terrifying when you knew the murder took place in the very building. Also Death playing the organ and gradually turning round to look at you was traumatising. Cool Dude #17 has got a video of it in 2008 - th-cam.com/video/dVdCqyVrM9Y/w-d-xo.html
@@cdwc Hey, that's me - thanks Marek! 💙 I'm gutted that I didn't take more videos back then. I'd just started archiving island stuff and cheap cameras weren't as good as they are now so I always took photos instead. Regret it now.
Some wise words in your video today: always go for a walk! I spent the weekend moping about the house and I know I would've felt 100 times better if I'd just gone outside for a wander.
@@cdwc I had totally forgotten about the organ playing skeleton! That used to scare the shite out of me as a kid - I bet I have a nightmare about that tonight as I had obviously erased it from my memory until you just popped it back in there. Will check out Cool Dude #17's video and most probably make a mess in my pants. Cheers dudes - Stay Cool!
@@cdwc I only went there the once, felt like something was watching me upstairs, it was a very short visit for me!
Used to have beach parties down on the Duver when I was a teenager - God, that feels like a lifetime ago.
Bloody teenagers.
@@cdwc Don't pretend you weren't a scoundrel and a vandal and a pyromaniac in your youth, my dude. 😜
(We were the teenagers who took bin bags to clear up after ourselves, if that makes you happy, haha).
You can rock hop from Priory beach round to St Helens if you're risky brave or a mountain goat. Be safe Cool Dudes !
Nice one. I was thinking of trying it, but did not want to get stuck in the dark at high tide. Even though I am very brave.
The path through wooded area was muddy and awful when i ended up having to go that way, one August afternoon !
The author of that book obliviously just got as far as the beach and couldn't figure out how to get off it so made the rest up. I did enjoy the ghost story though and the satellite tree was pretty cool.
I am going to start growing a satellite tree in my garden.
Brilliant video as always
there is a path from priory bay but its not very well sign posted and is easily missed. its just before you get to the old sea wall thats falling down. very muddy this time of year i would imagine :-)
Thanks dude. I went back near the Priory Hotel and walked down one that was blocked off but it was so muddy. Will investigate further in better weather.
Me and my Husband got lost and had to scramble round that same bit but we were on the slippery rocks near the water, absolutely crapping ourselves that we'd never get out of there...we obviously did in the end 😆
I am glad it was not just me and also that you survived. I probably got the order the wrong way round there.
@@cdwc 🤣
I`m a Cluniac..
O Brother Where art though,
Oceans 11,
love all his films
O Brother indeed!
I can safely say the path you couldn't find is the worst path I've ever walked. Dont ask me to explain where it is as all I can say is up a steep muddy slope amongst the trees (and that was in August)😁😁😁 Great commentary as usual.
Thanks cool dude. I did start walking up that path and it led nowhere so came back down.
Absolutely. Always go for a walk, it is good for your physical and mental health.
Maybe the land was not private at the time the author wrote the book.
I think the path may have eroded I will try and find it another time.
Marek didn't wave goodbye! He must've really been in a bad mood :o
I was holding the phone to light my face with the torch, and my other hand had the camera in it. The non-waving mystery is solved.
Another top video Marek! What filming kit do you use? It’s pretty clear in picture and audio
Thanks cool dude. I use an Olympus E-M1 Mark III with a Rode Videomicro microphone.
There's a set of stairs that goes through the woods half way along the beach
I think I saw those, I just assumed they were private. Thanks dude will check them out.
@@cdwc it's a bit muddy there's a few fallen trees but it gets you to the other beach alright 👍👍
Walking club!
Becareful to not confuse this st helens with the northern version , trust me the only good thing to come from that place was Stephen Tries haha :D
I am so old I had to look up Stephen Tries.
Rewatching this one for shits and giggles. 🤭
Nice one Marek.
1. I love that horse.
2. The owl pellet looked cool.
3. ...do you actually believe in ghosts?
I don't really believe in ghosts, but sometimes I get a bit scared nonetheless.
please PLEASE come for a walk to portsmouth ild love you to just walk about insulting everything there is in portsmouth please!!!!!! lol
Yes I might do the Solent Way soon.
I don’t think our St Helens was named after monks 😁
These Monks get everywhere.
Hmmm... Where can you get a antenna metal tree from? It looks a bit like a kauri tree which is suffering from kauri dieback at moment in NZ from disease bought in on our shoes into forests. The government spends a lot on controlling it here mostly by building high tech shoe disinfectant spraying stations and raised timber walkways in every forests or bush walk. So here’s my plan... I work with the government here to replace all the kauri with antenna trees. Then as a side affect we’d all get really good tv reception service here as well as no one would ever know we humans killed all the kauri accidentally with our stinky adidas trainers. Brilliant huh.
This sounds like something a modern day Bushranger would do.
@@cdwc yes it does!