Loved this very interesting and diverse video. I am now 84 but we spent many years holidaying in Dartmouth. We had a lovely apartment and the balcony overlooked the river Dart. Love Brixham and we have had pasties from that shop. Love the steam train from Kingswear to Paignton.. Thank you for bringing back happy memories.
Hi, love this channel, always happy when i see a new video released. I used to be one of the rangers in long wood (long time ago), and from what i remember, those cottages were old charcoal makers cottages. Longwood used to be a very productive woodland for coppiced goods and charcoal.
Well done on such a fantastic, ever-growing channel 👌 - your descriptions of what you see are so good I can imagine even people who have visual loss can still enjoy your informative, mindful videos / thank you 🙏
Ha ha! I thought it would be hard to measure, or indeed witness, the breaking of sweat on a dog. Don't they sweat through the pads of their feet? Of course a bit of panting would be a giveaway.
How gorgeous!!! And pasties, too! A steam train!!! OMG, what a life. If I wanted a pasty I'd have to make my own. Tempting!! The first and last time I've ever heard a steam train was in 1978. It woke me up as it chugged down the track in the middle of the old city street, one block over from us in West Oakland, California. It was attempting to make a historic run up to Oregon, we read about it the next day in the newspaper. It broke down about a mile North in Berkeley though, and that was the end of that. Thank you for the beautiful walk in the woods.❤
high here in withernsea east yorkshire its been mild and the birds have been feedin well on the seeds i gave them,, uk housebound granny so love these vidieos
6:39 That caterpillar is Alphonse the Fuzzy. He's a jerk. He owes me $20.00, U.S. Dollars, and, one moon-lit night, he wrecked my car into a herd of cows before running away with the spoon. I think I awoke in a goofy mood. It is foggy outside. I love fog. Not to drive in, but walking in the woods is awesome. I think I will do that today. Once again, thank you for sharing your beautiful walk, and I think there was some talk of fungus, but I only saw the moss.
A lovley walk, with Kingswear to Totnes being my favourite part. I did the whole thing from Kingswear -> Totnes -> Paignton. It nearly broke me and my friend 😆
I'm looking forward to seeing growth from the early spring bulbs, could even be as early as late January depending on the weather. Snowdrops and Daffodils for example.
Thank you for sharing another precious piece of content. Every time I see your videos I feel at home. Your care and interest in nature is so refreshing and heart warming - And same goes for all your other genres of content (I watch them all!). Thanks again, I really appreciate the time you take. I hope you're also enjoying your life :)
00:35 Well, it looks enough like a ravine to make no nevermind to me! That's a lovely wood, with its relics of human habitation to make one's imagination fly. I could see that the path was steep near the top, and full of those treacherous little boulders just itching to trip you up. Thanks for sharing a sunny September day in this dark season.
Great video to finish the year, thank you! A couple of thoughts to add, apologies if they have already been mentioned… The steep,height, walk looking down to the to water reminds me of the beautiful Penrose to Loe Bar walk. Secondly in Cornwall Swede is known as a turnip… not sure why and so the traditional Cornish Pasty has Turnip in it… Happy New Year!
A lot of Devon is protected to an extent but unfortunately there is a LOT of building going on here as well. Okehampton for example used to be a beautiful little traditional moorside town, but they’ve just tacked nearly 1000 houses onto the side of it. It’s ruined.
Lovely walk! What you showed of Brixham and surroundings in your videos makes me want to go there for a holiday. I did a quick search for cottages. What I find is all with several bedrooms, plenty of space for a whole family ... but I am only one person! I'll have to search some more, maybe there's a hostel, or otherwise I need to take my one-person-tent (and more camp gear) with me and find a campsite.
I'm one of those few who love the winter lol and I embrace the winter and I love this time of the year.Theres a certain atmosphere and I love the chill the to the air and love wrapping up on a cold winters morn or night with a nice cuppa.
Hey Shrimp the beetle you found at 7:39 was probably not a Geotrupes stercorarius. It was probably Anoplotrupes stercorosus which is the most common dung beetle species you can find in the woods since they dont only feed on dung but also other decaying and rotting things like plant matter and mushrooms. If you ever found a beetle that looks like this one on a mushroom, it was a Anoplotrupes stercorosus. It is hard to visually distinguish the two species, at least I cant based on the footage so I cant identify this beetle with certainty.
i used to live out in the country but me and my family moved to a big city about 10 years ago, no forests etc. so ive been living vicariously through you, I appreciate these videos a ton one day maybe ill take what ive learned from you and put it to good use lol
If you're ever down Gunnislake way there is a beautiful walk that starts from the railway station, down the lane, through someone's garden then along the river and on through lanes and woods, plenty to see.
Most trees have a spiral. Slow growing trees or trees with certain clear bark or branch patterns are easier to read. Spiral spin is a lot like handedness in humans, and are described as such. Clockwise spirals are left-handed, counterclockwise is called right-handed.
6:38 According to Norfolk Moths that would appear to be a Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) - I am not great with caterpillars, so thank you Dr Google! That is only the second time I have looked for caterpillars, the last time it turned out to be a Privet Hawk Moth that was strolling past my back door and finding a picture of it was considerably harder.
Love the video as usual Mike, I do however always get nervous when I see a planning application in any place of natural beauty. As it usually means the place isn't going to be so beautiful in the near future.
Interesting about the blackberries - I've noticed a lot of variation in the ones that try to overrun my garden and I was wondering if there were varieties or if it was just about growing conditions. Lovely walk, thank you!
You know, its perfectly reasonable to take a bit of time off after completing a 1-video a day marathon. Not that I'm complaining about more videos from my favorite youtuber, but I don't want you to feel as though you _must_ go right back to your schedule without a break.
But it is true to reality. Yes, the edibility of the rest of the plant is is variable depending on the species, but the blossoms are edible; you can pull them off and suck out the nectar like a little straw. You can also use them as a garnish or dry them to use as an infusion.
As a runner, it is incredibly frustrating how hard it is to capture on camera just how steep an "up" really is 🤣 the amount of times ive taken a picture to show why im so exhausted when I get home just to hear how it doesnt look that bad 😂
Yeah, some of it is probably just the rather wide angle of the GoPro lens - the same sort of thing happened on a video recently where I was recording storm waves at Portland - the waves were literally the size of houses, but on camera they look just like regular waves in slow motion
You filmed this in your local chanterelle season, and it's now chanterelle season in Northern California (end of December). I saw some the other day... sold in packages at Costco. Are they being produced commercially now?
"There are deer around here...she will chase them" That got me to remember you saying that she doesn't chase deer some years ago. Are we to interpret it as sweet innocent Eva are falsely accused of having chased deer off camera somewhere inbetween those dates? 😜
Before full-time TH-cam, he did I.T. Brilliant video of this forest, Mike. Almost reminds me of the Olympic National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington (not the same as U.S. capital city Washington, D.C.). Thanks, by the way, for replying to my two emails regarding the cheese in your advent calendar and regarding the Branston pickle. Have a marvelous 2025 in the next few days.
To be honest, your answer is actually what I had in mind. I currently live in Los Angeles. I grew up in Michigan and in the woods. With that said, I had to look up the meaning. I actually went to junior high school near the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. This was way back in the mid 80s.
Yeah, an estuary here is the basically the tidal mouth of a river (that is, a watercourse with a significant fresh water flow of its own); a creek is more of a tidal inlet - like a small version of a fjord.
He does have a postal address - best to contact him directly (details are in the descriptions of any of his videos). It's worth mentioning that sending parcels to Nigeria can be very expensive.
1St time here 😃 thanks for sharing 🌍 peace and joy love and kindness patience & goodness ❤ Can you talk about the coming of the Lord some day. KJV talking about "caught up"= rupture 😃ok keep the Love 🤍
Loved this very interesting and diverse video. I am now 84 but we spent many years holidaying in Dartmouth. We had a lovely apartment and the balcony overlooked the river Dart. Love Brixham and we have had pasties from that shop. Love the steam train from Kingswear to Paignton.. Thank you for bringing back happy memories.
Hi, love this channel, always happy when i see a new video released. I used to be one of the rangers in long wood (long time ago), and from what i remember, those cottages were old charcoal makers cottages. Longwood used to be a very productive woodland for coppiced goods and charcoal.
thank you for all of that info xx
Caterpillar of Buff-tip Moth (Phalera bucephala)
Thank you.
This channel is so very cozy.
Lovely sunny and verdant video to watch on a grey winter's day! Thanks for showing the ruined house - really sparks the imagination.
Thank you for this lovely green video in grey December! Beautiful! 🥰
Well done on such a fantastic, ever-growing channel 👌 - your descriptions of what you see are so good I can imagine even people who have visual loss can still enjoy your informative, mindful videos / thank you 🙏
Thank you for looking out for our small insect friends. 😊❤
While the humans huff and puff, the dog walks the trail at least three times: forward, backwards, forward without breaking a sweat.
Ha ha! I thought it would be hard to measure, or indeed witness, the breaking of sweat on a dog. Don't they sweat through the pads of their feet? Of course a bit of panting would be a giveaway.
How gorgeous!!! And pasties, too! A steam train!!! OMG, what a life. If I wanted a pasty I'd have to make my own. Tempting!! The first and last time I've ever heard a steam train was in 1978. It woke me up as it chugged down the track in the middle of the old city street, one block over from us in West Oakland, California. It was attempting to make a historic run up to Oregon, we read about it the next day in the newspaper. It broke down about a mile North in Berkeley though, and that was the end of that. Thank you for the beautiful walk in the woods.❤
That train chugging sound was a treat for my ears!
You are the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks!
Love the walk through the woods, just what I needed, almost as good as going myself x
Thank you for the lovely walk. I especially enjoyed seeing the old cottage site.
Always interesting, lovely.😻❤️🙏
high here in withernsea east yorkshire its been mild and the birds have been feedin well on the seeds i gave them,, uk housebound granny so love these vidieos
6:39 That caterpillar is Alphonse the Fuzzy. He's a jerk. He owes me $20.00, U.S. Dollars, and, one moon-lit night, he wrecked my car into a herd of cows before running away with the spoon.
I think I awoke in a goofy mood. It is foggy outside. I love fog. Not to drive in, but walking in the woods is awesome. I think I will do that today.
Once again, thank you for sharing your beautiful walk, and I think there was some talk of fungus, but I only saw the moss.
There is a fog-bound visit to the beach coming up in a future video (we went to Seatown on Christmas day and it was quite foggy)
@@AtomicShrimp Woohoo! I can't wait. And on the ocean too! The sound of the surf on a foggy walk. Delicious.
thank you for sharing your woodland walk with us
Devon is looovely. I lived on the coast there during my school years, took it for granted more than I knew
What a lovely green walk through the woods & for sharing Mike,Jenny & Eve 🤗🐾🌲🌳Happy New Year to you and your family 🥳🎉🎊🐾
What an amazing forest; thank you for sharing it. Have an awesome weekend.
A lovley walk, with Kingswear to Totnes being my favourite part. I did the whole thing from Kingswear -> Totnes -> Paignton. It nearly broke me and my friend 😆
Good morning, a very welcome video to watch in the later part of December when all is grey. A wonderful reminder that Spring will be on its way soon
I'm looking forward to seeing growth from the early spring bulbs, could even be as early as late January depending on the weather. Snowdrops and Daffodils for example.
@@SlartiMarvinbartfast
Those first spring flovers popping up is always such a magical experience!
Thank you for making sure we still have content!! Advent December was quite a fear!! Good on you man!! Enjoyed it very much, ty!!🎉😂❤
Thank you for sharing another precious piece of content. Every time I see your videos I feel at home. Your care and interest in nature is so refreshing and heart warming - And same goes for all your other genres of content (I watch them all!). Thanks again, I really appreciate the time you take. I hope you're also enjoying your life :)
Thats the Paignton to Dartmouth steam train, well worth a round trip, Dartmouth to Totnes by boat, then bus back to Paignton, beautiful
00:35 Well, it looks enough like a ravine to make no nevermind to me! That's a lovely wood, with its relics of human habitation to make one's imagination fly. I could see that the path was steep near the top, and full of those treacherous little boulders just itching to trip you up. Thanks for sharing a sunny September day in this dark season.
Great video to finish the year, thank you! A couple of thoughts to add, apologies if they have already been mentioned… The steep,height, walk looking down to the to water reminds me of the beautiful Penrose to Loe Bar walk. Secondly in Cornwall Swede is known as a turnip… not sure why and so the traditional Cornish Pasty has Turnip in it… Happy New Year!
So lovely and different from my tropical home😊
I love it when Shrimp has wood for us
Beautiful landscape. Thanks for taking us along!
You really are a variety content creator
What a fantastic looking woodland. I hope it lasts for many generations to come and beyond.
A lot of Devon is protected to an extent but unfortunately there is a LOT of building going on here as well. Okehampton for example used to be a beautiful little traditional moorside town, but they’ve just tacked nearly 1000 houses onto the side of it. It’s ruined.
Lovely wood,beautiful!
Lovely video, thanks Mike. Also thanks for the wonderful advent calendar videos this month, I hope that you are able to do another in December 2025. 🙂
Lovely walk! What you showed of Brixham and surroundings in your videos makes me want to go there for a holiday. I did a quick search for cottages. What I find is all with several bedrooms, plenty of space for a whole family ... but I am only one person! I'll have to search some more, maybe there's a hostel, or otherwise I need to take my one-person-tent (and more camp gear) with me and find a campsite.
I'm one of those few who love the winter lol and I embrace the winter and I love this time of the year.Theres a certain atmosphere and I love the chill the to the air and love wrapping up on a cold winters morn or night with a nice cuppa.
Hey Shrimp the beetle you found at 7:39 was probably not a Geotrupes stercorarius. It was probably Anoplotrupes stercorosus which is the most common dung beetle species you can find in the woods since they dont only feed on dung but also other decaying and rotting things like plant matter and mushrooms. If you ever found a beetle that looks like this one on a mushroom, it was a Anoplotrupes stercorosus. It is hard to visually distinguish the two species, at least I cant based on the footage so I cant identify this beetle with certainty.
i used to live out in the country but me and my family moved to a big city about 10 years ago, no forests etc. so ive been living vicariously through you, I appreciate these videos a ton
one day maybe ill take what ive learned from you and put it to good use lol
Great little stealth camp spot near there
i also recommended newbridge on dartmoor, lots of lovely walks there!
Good morning!❤
@9:20 I think we call those sloughs in the States!
If you're ever down Gunnislake way there is a beautiful walk that starts from the railway station, down the lane, through someone's garden then along the river and on through lanes and woods, plenty to see.
I remember hawk moor where I grew up, sliding down the bluebells in a ravine. It’s a housing estate now I believe.
great video would love to lark that wood
That walk looked great and fitting you should be eating a pastie in Devon and Cornwall.
Most trees have a spiral. Slow growing trees or trees with certain clear bark or branch patterns are easier to read. Spiral spin is a lot like handedness in humans, and are described as such. Clockwise spirals are left-handed, counterclockwise is called right-handed.
6:38 According to Norfolk Moths that would appear to be a Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) - I am not great with caterpillars, so thank you Dr Google! That is only the second time I have looked for caterpillars, the last time it turned out to be a Privet Hawk Moth that was strolling past my back door and finding a picture of it was considerably harder.
I love your videos ❤️
The pasty looked interesting - I need to experiment more...
Nice walk and pasty looked good.
Love the video as usual Mike, I do however always get nervous when I see a planning application in any place of natural beauty. As it usually means the place isn't going to be so beautiful in the near future.
Interesting about the blackberries - I've noticed a lot of variation in the ones that try to overrun my garden and I was wondering if there were varieties or if it was just about growing conditions.
Lovely walk, thank you!
You know, its perfectly reasonable to take a bit of time off after completing a 1-video a day marathon. Not that I'm complaining about more videos from my favorite youtuber, but I don't want you to feel as though you _must_ go right back to your schedule without a break.
The moss❤
🖤
It's weird honeysuckle having such an appetising name, should've been called gravesway or something
But it is true to reality. Yes, the edibility of the rest of the plant is is variable depending on the species, but the blossoms are edible; you can pull them off and suck out the nectar like a little straw. You can also use them as a garnish or dry them to use as an infusion.
Buff Tip moth 😊
As a runner, it is incredibly frustrating how hard it is to capture on camera just how steep an "up" really is 🤣 the amount of times ive taken a picture to show why im so exhausted when I get home just to hear how it doesnt look that bad 😂
Yeah, some of it is probably just the rather wide angle of the GoPro lens - the same sort of thing happened on a video recently where I was recording storm waves at Portland - the waves were literally the size of houses, but on camera they look just like regular waves in slow motion
The tiny cottage reminds me of both the Hobbits and Robin Hood.
You filmed this in your local chanterelle season, and it's now chanterelle season in Northern California (end of December). I saw some the other day... sold in packages at Costco. Are they being produced commercially now?
I want to live in a tiny cottage in the woods c:
my neck of the woods, enjoy
"There are deer around here...she will chase them"
That got me to remember you saying that she doesn't chase deer some years ago. Are we to interpret it as sweet innocent Eva are falsely accused of having chased deer off camera somewhere inbetween those dates? 😜
I don't believe I ever said she doesn't chase deer. It's always been a problem we have to manage. I think you must be mistaken.
I like wewd, it smells nice and sounds like a song.
Let me be the first to wish you a Happy New Year Mr Shrimp
from Sydney 🦘🌏 Australia
Eva imposes a tax on everything edible by dogs.
Nice vid man! What do you do?
This
Before full-time TH-cam, he did I.T.
Brilliant video of this forest, Mike. Almost reminds me of the Olympic National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington (not the same as U.S. capital city Washington, D.C.). Thanks, by the way, for replying to my two emails regarding the cheese in your advent calendar and regarding the Branston pickle. Have a marvelous 2025 in the next few days.
It would be great to see a video on foraging for beginners maybe with an actual beginner, maybe a different TH-camr, like a collaboration 😊
This episode has been sponsored by... The Beatles 🐞
Your definition for creek, would be estuary here in the US. Creek here referes to fresh water.
Estuaries in the uk tend to be more open,flat areas. Good places for birdspotting.
To be honest, your answer is actually what I had in mind. I currently live in Los Angeles. I grew up in Michigan and in the woods. With that said, I had to look up the meaning. I actually went to junior high school near the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. This was way back in the mid 80s.
Yeah, an estuary here is the basically the tidal mouth of a river (that is, a watercourse with a significant fresh water flow of its own); a creek is more of a tidal inlet - like a small version of a fjord.
Thnak you. Love the channel even the cooking and and gardening vids.
Always more up than down...
While you were walking along the Dart Valley Trail, did you happen to come across the John Warosa legacy fund I was trying to recover?
that looks more like a witches cottage.
This looks like some sort of Blair Witch project type of abandoned building
It's winter in uk. This must be filmed months ago.
He did say September in the first couple of minutes. 👍
@marylynne9104 I've probably not been listening. My apologies
In September.,.?
has you friend in nigeria have a PO box as i am a petrion of his and i have a lot of kitcen utenciles i would like to post to him ?
He does have a postal address - best to contact him directly (details are in the descriptions of any of his videos). It's worth mentioning that sending parcels to Nigeria can be very expensive.
@@AtomicShrimp thanks
Jeremy Juggler just emailed me
I got some long wood for ya
1St time here 😃 thanks for sharing 🌍 peace and joy love and kindness patience & goodness ❤
Can you talk about the coming of the Lord some day.
KJV talking about "caught up"= rupture 😃ok keep the Love 🤍