Scotland's Easdale Island, Nature and Wildlife
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2017
- Easdale Island is a documentary suited for all audiences. About a small slate island along the north west coast of Scotland.
A passion film, self-financed.
I visited Easdale Island initially to film a wildlife documentary about otters, 'Water Dogs', also on TH-cam. At the time the island had two wild otters that visited it's waters, but when I returned 2 years later to film some of this documentary, I heard that the wild otters had been killed by cars. Hopefully they will have new wild otters that visit the waters for crab soon. Seeing the wild otters with my own eyes in Scotland was the highlight for me.
Filmed and edited by Aaron Cook
Voice of Steph bower
Sound by Jordan Crosse
Animation by Adam Cutts
Aerials by James Ranken and Paul Compton
A special mention to Mary Withall. Her book on Easdale Island helped with the narration. - กีฬา
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We used to live here in the late 80s, my mum and dad were driving round scotland, n ended up here, it was dark so needed to park somewhere to sleep, woke up the next morning and fell in love the place, and decided we were going to live there, lived in a big caravan on the seafront, I was only 9, it was magical, been a few times on the train in my later years, 4 trains and 8 hours to get there, great journey and adventure.
What a nice story !
I love Easdale
Amazingly, the film crew were lucky enough to film this on the one day of summer in Scotland.
An you wid ken like
Cheap shot
leave us alone, englishman
Meanwhile engulund drowns
England is a shithole. I know, I live there.
English people are self-hating. I know, I am one.
Scotland is beautiful, this island is extraordinary. I can see why you love it. I once lived in Scotland and its forever in my heart.
It has some of themost beautiful landscape in the UK but the most horrible , desolate pebble dashed and concrete cities.
Yes Juanita. Let's fuck in Scotland
On the Memory lane..we spend in 1980 and 1981 three holidays on Easdale Island. At that time there was no museum or Community hall and not many tourists. You could only 2 cottages rent on the islabd, one if them was Port Bage (I dont no if its the right writing). Where we lived. We had a wundervoll time. Away from it all on this unspoild island. Many happy memories...
I visited this beautiful island some years ago, would move in a heartbeat, thank you for sharing
Did anyone just start getting this recommendation ? 😁
yup
There's a movie filmed in this location, called Ring of bright water, 1969. About a man who lives in London and buys an otter, but realises he can't bring it up there so moves to Scotland, this is where he moves to.
Nice movie.
thanks ...will look it up!
I was lucky enough to go to an intimate Waterboys gig on Easdale some years ago. They were raising funds to purchase a piano for the recently built hall. It was a magical experience from the short evening ferry crossing to the actual show itself. After getting some autographs we caught the ferry back in the dark. I will never forget it. I used to live in Kilmelford which is just up the road so it was easily accessible. Lovely times spent on Seil and Easdale. Great memories! 😊
I remember that! My old man spent a ridiculous amount on a bottle of Eilean Eisdeal whisky signed by the Waterboys at the raffle lol
I'm a Scottish history buff but I had never heard of Easdale. It looks like an amazing island steeped in our industrial heritage. Thank you for posting this video.
Mise cuideachd!
It's going straight up my kayak destination list.
@@minerwilly amazing kayaking around Luing also if you ever get a chance lots of gear coast to explore and you can do just about the whole island in a couple days
@@AlwaysAC I was going to do Staffa this year until COVID turned up and buggered everything up, so no doubt that will be back on the cards next year. I was planning on taking on some of the smaller islands at the same time so Easdale will be right on the list. I've paddled down there before but not half as much as I would have liked.
Snap!
Your a Scottish history buff yet you failed to find an entire island !!!
Its Scotland for gods sake not the Amazon😂.
I love Scotland i go at least 5 times a year and visit Conwy castle 😂😂😂
Id never heard of this lovely wee island. Thank you and Merry Christmas..
I spent years diving around Easdale island, the underwater scenery is just as impressive as the island !
Did you dive in the quarries? Anything to see there?
Nice video! Have been there several times. Place is great not only for its history. You can walk up the hills and view from there is amazing. Love that place.
Visit the island quite often. Nice little ferry across and lovely walks.
The little community pub serves good food and drink so please use it. There are other wonderful delights on the island but I won’t spoil them, if you get the opportunity visit and se them for yourself. Another point of interest is that to get to the island you will cross the only BRIDGE OVER THE ATLANTIC to get there. A little treat all on its own
For the technology minded I found that getting a mobile phone signal/data signal on the island was brilliant compared to areas of larger populations.
Thanks for the info.
Fascinating video about an island I’d never heard of, thanks for this!
Beautifully shot film. Loved it. Man thanks.
I stayed on Easdale Island overnight in September 2019, fascinating place! The food at the restaurant there was great.
I stayed there for a week, one evening.
@@simonlloyd7557 cute 😊
Really well produced and informative. Well done. I'll be learning some more from your archive.
This is a really excellent little doc - it deserves far more views!
I think 260k views is ENOUGH for a channel with only 500 subscribers
@@dvtofk9908 well it now has 308,000 so i guess it is starting to take off now
Needs at least a billion.
Agreed
And full of factual errors in the opening minutes of narration.
Used to holiday on luing when I was wee, made the trip across a few times. Lovely place, lovely folk. And that blue water really stuck with me.
I lived on Luing next door to Easdale. I never actually went on Easdale , I just sat and watched it from the village. it looks amazing.
oh wow. how lovely. happy you had such an experience :)
@@haroldofcardboard I am very lucky. I have lived in scotland for 6 years now, mostly in the best locations. mind, i have roughed it to be here too lol, but it is so worth it. )
I'm in Inverness. You been there before??
@@dontgetittwizted yes I have. I did a weeks work at Fort Augustus and went to Inverness , but I didnt stay long enough to get to see anything properly.
@Steven Gray on Luing? i lived on the bothy in the middle of the island. I had the whole of that area to myself, because the house next door was getting renovated. It was heaven. lol
The film, Ring Of Bright Water was filmed here in late 60's. We used to live here in the late 80's. Beautiful place.
Great film. You must have loved the peace the island offered.
Just looked- whole film on yt ❤️
Brilliant video about a fascinating island.
Thanks for posting
Well done short documentary!. What a beautiful place to live, those there are lucky.
This was a joy to watch. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Great video. Much enjoyed.
great video and drone footage love history thanks for sharing
Thanks for the feedback 'Treasure Hunting Scotland'
I don't know how I got here, but this was great.
Doughall Macleod has to be the most Scottish name ever
Hamish McTavish
It's more Scottish than Angus Haggis-McSporan
Wait !..Boaty McBoatface ...ha
There can be only one.....
@@FIshfood500 hamish is irish
Very nicely made. Love the soundtrack.
Plus the wisdom of knowing to cut the music for the speech. A rare skill indeed on YT.
Excellent thank you.
love the history of easdale
Beautiful! I adore Scotland
Beautiful island. I've been on it once. Take the small boat across, where you see a load of wheelbarrows all lined up, with the house numbers on it. This will get your supplies to your house.
The world stone skimming championships are held here too.
Go for the day and walk among the flooded quarries and grassland.
Its like stepping back in time.
It is truly beautiful.
Great video, it always confuses me when I see the numbers of people disliking a video like this, well produced and narrated, whats not to like.
Having no interest in anything in the video is a possibility.
@@krashd Which raises the question of why they chose to watch it. Very strange.
Jealously
@@webtoedman Because it was recommended to them and they wanted to let the algorithm know not to recommend any more like it...
But you can let TH-cam know you don’t want to watch a particular type of video without disliking a persons content.
Nice documentary, bro.
Dope narrator
This was a great little documentary
What a gorgeous spot .
brilliant documentary
Looks a wonderful place. I'm sure I've seen something on TV recently about holding the world championship for stone skimming or something of a similar nature. Thanks for sharing
It is! Perfect long flat water
Outstanding video documentary, very well done indeed.
Very informative and nice video!
Love this!
A charming story in the midst of pandemic madness.
Wanna do me?
I like this as I dived in one of the flooded quarries over 20years ago, so really interesting to get a bit of history. We are well into the era of the drone so that has put a great perspective on the island, only criticism is the over done B roll. Other than that, loved it and learnt a lot. 👍🏻
nice island and nice video...........greetings from croatia
Thanks
Wonderful
Lucky enough to have been here, while staying on the isle of seil for a week, stunning island
Beautiful place 👍🏻
100% beautiful. 👍
Beautiful place ❤
This is the right kind of place for me and character ,
This is where they have competition to skip pebbles across the water
That’s how I first heard of it.
Aha I was just thinking I knew I had seen the place on the telly .Thanks
Very well done sir.
I love being Scottish. Such a beautiful country .
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Me too. The further up north you go, the more beautiful it gets 😊
@@srehtaef1824 I'm from Inverness. Up in the highlands..where you from
@@dontgetittwizted ahhh ! I am from Arbroath, you're not that far from me !!!
@@srehtaef1824 I've never been down Arbroath way before . You been up in Inverness at all ?
Very enjoyable
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Great video. I’m on the east coast but will be visiting as soon as the apocalypse ends. New subscriber 👍🏻
No need for majestic music; the place is majestic enough.
You learn something new every day, I always thought that slate quarrying was the preserve of Wales
Scottish Slate is of a far superior quality!
@@billstruthers4025 1.5 million Welshmen 🙄 😂
@@billstruthers4025 only better than English slate, welsh slate is the creme de la crem. 👌 🏴
@@DrumToTheBassWoop Switherland slate is universally acknowledged to be of superior colour to any in the world, its purple hue making it the premier choice for those with a more refined taste in roofing material throughout the civilized world... and Nottingham.
I camped on the hill a few years ago... beautiful
Very nice.
Great video with beautiful scenery and with lovely detailed commentary... I filmed there in November 2016 it was a dull day but at least it didn't rain.
I believed you right up to the point where you said it didn't rain---JK
Haha. The weather can get bad for sure! You can rent one of the cottages on the island for a few days/ week and have a nice warm place to stay...maybe even get the fire place going. It can be quite lovely.
No such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing! :)
This was remarkably well produced for a passion project.
My history teacher is rolling in his grave "During a night in the 18th century..." 1881 is the 19th century.
I think the narrator is just making it up as she went along. It was a storm and one of the quarry walls collapsed not a tidal wave, and it didn't flood them all at once.
Beautiful place, I could rest my heart there..
Why would anyone watch this all the way through and then give it a thumbs down? Baffling! I loved it, thank you!
No traffic no noise no pollution and few people sounds like heaven
Wow awesome video you have a New subscriber 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Just what I need
I'm more shocked that there are Scottish folk living there. Makes a nice change.
@Modern Classic Collectables I imagine because it's usually wealthy middle class londoners moving to these places and living 'on the edge'. You can usually read of their bravery and derring do in The Guardian.
Same here. These islands tend to become English retirement villages (hence huge rises in property prices).
Every town on all the scottish coasts are just like that' 😃👍🏼
You've never been to Ardrossan then......
Every day is a learning day! Never heard o the place!
These quarry pits are amazing. What is the composition of the water in them? Why is one a lighter blue? Assuming they were dry just before the storm, what has happened to the water which presumably would be sea water rushing in that couldn't escape. How saline is it now? This is definitely a situation ripe for study.
agreed
cracking wee video. I visited here, along with Isle of Seil, and Osle of Luing just 2 weeks ago.
I'd love to do a summer camping/fishing trip there.
So very beautiful my idea of Heaven. X. Thank you for sharing your video. 😊😊😊😊🐱🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
That flag is horrible 🤮
I went to Easdale many moons ago.
What a beautiful place to live especially during covid times
I've been there and saw some dolphins, despite the small number of residents,60,due to it's tiny size it must be the most densely populated islands in Scotland? Confusingly the main village on Seil,where the Easdale ferry goes from,is also called Easdale in English so they sometimes use the Gaelic name for one and the English name for the other to avoid confusion.Probably the smallest Scottish marine island I've been to depending which is bigger Easdale or Crammond Island?
It's sad to think, that we have all this beautiful scenery and history on our doorstep, yet not many are aware or care.
My mum stayed here as a child, also my gran owned 2 off the small cottages and a house at sea view !
wonderful Best wishes!
Nice
Please can you do more interesting 10 min Doc/films on "Highlands of Scotland pure magic ✨"👌👍😎 fabulous !!!
One wrong move and you could get impaled so not for me but an eye-opening well made documentary
awesome place was only there in jan
Used to drive down there often delivering flowers but often had some stovies in the puffer when steven and effie ran it.
Great production.
Thank you for introducing us to this place.
What are the plans for Easdale's future?
What are the inhabitants intentions?
The way it's going most of the houses will be holiday homes unfortunately...
@@Shabbash Ah...yeah...it's been a hell of year. I wish you luck my friend.
Nice little video about an Island I knew nothing about.
The music is all over the place though.
“Dughall Macleod” is literally the most Scottish name I’ve ever heard in my entire life. It almost doesn’t sound real. It’s like meeting an Italian man called “ Francesco Alessandro Ravioli Pizza Pie Corleone” just sounds made up
It's probably spelt "Dougal" but yes, even as a Scottish person that is one of the most Scottish names I've ever heard :D
I'm Scottish and when the name came up I laughed. God...
Could anyone tell me what the song is that's used around the 1:40 mark? Great documentary and such a beautiful island!
i used to go out there for a few days every year with my grandparents but havent been for over 15 years
I refurbished a few of them fisherman cottages a life time ago
Wow.. glad you had that experience to say you have been there!
So did she just mean to say 19th Century? When was this tidal wave exactly 1881 or sometime in the 18th century? Have been here on a lovely sunny day as a wean- really wanted to jump in the quarry. One of my favourite sailing destinations.
Should publish this to the BBC
just back from a freediving trip to the island. the depths reported seem to be local myths. the deepest we measured was 35 metres with the rest between 10-20 metres. the one on the mainland is again reported to be 80 metres but with raw sewage being pumped in from the surrounding houses it can stay a myth
Rosco Mac any fish?
balor7 one quarry was sea breached at high tide and had a few fish. Nothing in the rest of them.
Interesting...thanks for sharing. Out of curiosity, did you film anything when under the water?
@@AaronCookTC with the raw sewage im guessing huge logs...
Agree the deepest I've actually heard from people I'd trust is 40 to 45m max.
Interesting my ancestors clans were just over the water not that far I wonder if they ever visited that little island 🤔
@Harman P JohnsonYankee Doodle are you on drugs sir?
A social network friend of my lives there.
What about the gunpowder that they used to blast the Slate out of the quarries... did that all wash out to sea? Is it still in the Quarry for on the land and is it poisoning the environment? It looks like a special place, beautiful! I hope all is well there! Thank you for sharing this wonderful video with us!
Well gunpowder is made of sulphur, saltpetre and carbon. Saltpetre and sulphur are both soluble to greater or lesser extent, carbon is easily washed away so I propose that all components have long gone and buried under tonnes of loose rock, clay, mud and water. So I don’t think from a chemical point of view given the small amount available there will be much effect on the environment.
@@gardnep I really don't think you know the exact explosives and in what quantities they were used and what actually end up happening to the substances and the environmental impact of these... toxic residues from explosive Quarry mining have been known to have negative environmental impacts on water and aquatic life and the greater surrounding environment
Lovely! I'm searching for a Scottish hideaway to run off to permanently after I'm done at the university (although an island is not my choice).
Plenty of beautiful places north Scotland to vanish off to - maybe Scourie?...
It's brilliant for a while then your horizons feel narrow and you leave. There's a churn of idyll-seeking people in all these islands. Some stay but not many.
There's an off-grid community somewhere in the Cairngorms that only accepts intellectuals, some sort of artist's haven.