Watching Eva dig enthusiastically for the inevitable rock made me literally lol. Going through a particularly stressful time and this peaceful video was therapeutic. Thank you!
Probably a good thing Eva stayed home while you were fishing, her poor little heart might've given out from all those perfect stones needing rescuing 😂 Great video as always!
Hey Mr.shrimp love all your videos thanks for creating them! I did have a possible video suggestion, which I thought would be entertaining, and I'm sure you've thought about this before, but what about an iron chef challenge. I was thinking if Jenny would be a good sport about it, she could go to the market and get a few items, and then she would give them to you to create a meal. She could also control the variables, whether you're allowed foraging or spices, etc. Just an idea! Have a great day!
As a Scotsman who was born and raised into adulthood by the coast but now lives in Madrid (coming on 10 years), I really really miss open water. Whenever I am at a beach I always feel "whole" or "grounded". It's a sensation I find hard to explain, almost like a muscle in the neck that I've been tensing continuously relaxes as soon as I'm at the coast, feeling the cool breeze, hearing the waves and smelling the sea. It's just fantastic.
Agreed, I grew up near lakes and streams. Lately I found a little fountain that I can sit by, and it's built so there is a little running section of it. It got cold, then I thought: TH-cam. Turns out there are a lot. It would be great to have the real thing, but the recorded variety isn't bad.
This channel is brilliant… it’s like a breath of fresh air in the smog of YT… I absolutely love your rambling walks in the countryside. Many thanks to you and Jenny, and cheers ✌️
Ooh, I would very much look forward to a Chesil Beach trek and Pebble Size Gradient Spreadsheet video next year (maybe with custom measuring equipment?).
I'm trying to figure out a strategy for the measuring; I need to sample at intervals, and there will be quite a lot of intervals; I need to sample more than one rock at each interval so we get a representative sample, and I need to do this all in one day, because there's no way off the beach at the halfway point. I was thinking I might just carefully weigh a cup of pebbles at each stop, and count them, which will give me an average weight per pebble, but then the physical dimensions of the pebbles might also have some hidden secrets, so I haven't figured out a workable plan yet
Yeah, lots of possibilities. I was considering pebble-volume calculation through displacement (bucket, pebbles, locally-available brine), but given the force of that tide I fear it may get you into deep water...
@@AtomicShrimp had a thought that it could be interesting to have samples from lower shelves as well as higher shelves, but that is considerably more workload
Gotta be honest, if you uploaded an hour long video of you just fishing on the beach so I can listen to those waves crash against the pebbly shore I'd listen to that when I have some trouble falling asleep. Incredibly soothing and brought back some of my childhood memories of going to the beach with my parents on vacation. City guy here, so the closest to sea sound that I can hear aside from videos is the sound of my blood flow echoing in a seashell.
I’m kicking myself for deleting my comment on the video on the walk in Spain with the “unnamed cave”. Now after seeing Eva today- I think I’m over my sudden onset of shyness and say- let’s call the cave “Las Rocas de Eva” ; Eva’s Rocks (aren’t they all?) it truly makes the most sense to me. Excuse my online translator use may be off a bit.
The fishing video was very relaxing hearing the waves come in. Thank you for the bit of zen. As i watched the video I chuckled thinking about how you could NEVER take Eva to that bit of beach. She would lose her mind with all those stones! 😂😂😂😂
Thanks for letting us tag along on your trips and making them more interesting. Also kudos for actually taking feedback about your audio seriously. I think a lot of professional 'tubers put so much money and effort into their setups that it's impossible to determine what won't work for people who need to rely on basic gear for general stuff.
Amazing Video yet again, I grew up in Dorset for most of my life so great to see you exploring all the places I know so well and seeing them from a different point of view, sometimes people get so used to a certain place and dont appriciate it the same way. Chesil beach and Bowleaze cove were always so relaxing to me, to just sit down and reflect on things growing up and even now, ill never forget both the silence in the air and the sound of the sea when sat on those pebbled beaches. (Silence and Sound) * next album name btw
As usual this Random Stuff video is jam packed full of fascinating stuff, not the least of which is in fact jam. The beach, Spain, fossils, hummingbird moths, crying rock-- just great! Love the fishing too! Don't know if it is catching because I haven't got to the end. Even if it isn't catching, its a lot of fun.
Was casually enjoying all the parts of the video and then you got to fishing. As far as I’m concerned that was a grand finale. Beautiful place. Masterful shot framing. And the sound of the pebbles rolling over each other in the surf. I am so relaxed right now.
Squashes actually ripen and cure off the vine quite well for me. I have a short growing season so always have to pick them early but they continue to colour up indoors and I've had no problem storing them for several months at room temp.
A wee tip for the fishing. In my experience fishing on the west coast of Scotland, mackerel are hard to catch from the beach (for me at least). However, when I have been successful it's because I have been very patient. When you cast, my theory is that you need to give a little time for the feathers/bait/hook to settle - don't start to reel straight away. Then, personally, I reel in a twitchier way - trying to replicate the erratic movements of little sea animals. On the other hand, in a boat a bit further out, I find mackerel very easy to catch. Once you find them, they practically jump on board.
The sad rock was actually a stone age emoji. It is thought that cave men would lob them into each others caves. A very primitive but effective form of texting, in fact it also had it's own customisable ring tone...Usually "ooooooh" or "owwww" but that was up to the recipient.
That's a garden spider, a female one due to its round abdomen. There was a huge one in our conservatory a couple of months ago and it would eat its own web every night (apparently this is normal and not mental illness as my sister suggested!).
Producing a net is a huge expense of protein for a spider. I don‘t think they can afford to build a new one from scratch every time, so they consume it for raw material.
A bit surprised that you find beech unproductive. I find oyster mushrooms on dead beech, trompe des morts in young beech growth, and also hedgehog mushrooms and even ceps partnered with beech.
49:56 I heard you say "small b--" for "small bird" and my brain filled in the rest as "small boy" before you had finished speaking. It was very funny hahahaha
I remember on a geography school trip we threw an orange into the see and then observed longshore drift in action as it washed up further along from where it was thrown, maybe youre just finding all these left over experimental oranges haha
Walking along the whole lenght of that beach just to watch the pebbles slowly and gradually changing in size seems like something I would verry much enjoy doing.
Your discussion about always living on the south coast reminded me of a realization I had in the past few years.... everywhere that I have lived (many houses & apartments) has been on a north-south running road where the building I lived in faced east. This was never intentional, but I thought a very surprising coincidence!
12:02 It is quite remarkable to see Eva sniff out and hunt up a rock under the forest detritus. 29:18 Does the can in the background say "Fresh Gas?" . I love the sound of the surf. Thank you.
It does say fresh gas, but it really just means 'fresh sparkling' as you either get agua con gas, or sin gas (sparkling or still) water. I assume this is maybe a sparkling lemonade.
MrShrimp/Mike, I so enjoyed your trip to the ocean. I live near the Pacific ocean outside of San Francisco in California, and it's a totally different kind of beach, just stand. The pebbles look amazing, but must be horribly difficult to walk on. Thank you for taking us with you. And.... I loved the 'dance' of you and the sea, silhouetted against the near sunset. Beautiful, and that was a different kind of a harvest. Thank you so much for all you offer to us.
I love these long videos of yours! I am currently staying a lot of home alone due my sickness and it feels like I have nice company with me. :) Thank you!
I’m listening to this video while I work and the sound of the crashing waves is so soothing. Same with the lovely crunching sound of walking on the pebbles. Great for a sleepy Monday.
I live very far from the ocean and i'd never thought of people standing on a beach like that fishing. It was very interesting to see. It looked beautiful & must have been fun. I've usually fished on small lakes or alow moving rivers. Often times off a dock or from a boat. That beach looked really interesting. I'd love to see you doument the pebbles. Great video!
My dad has lots of amazing (and scary) stories about fishing Chesil Beach in his youth - including thick fog, gale force winds, crashing waves, etc. It was lovely to put a picture to these stories, as I have never been myself. I can imagine what it would have been like to go fishing with him here! Thanks Shrimp
Yeah, it's not quite possible to capture on camera the relentless power of the surf on these beaches - when the waves crash down onto all those lovely rounded pebbles, there is just no firm footing and people can find themselves slipping down straight into deep water - even climbing back up the dry bank to the top of the beach, it's a case of slipping backwards nearly as quickly as you're stepping forward
Those kakis looked delicious! Have you ever had sujeonggwa? It's a Korean winter punch made with dried kaki fruits. Having watched you dehydrate a lot of things over time, I thought you might enjoy making it!
For the first time ever, a ‘volunteer’ squash appeared next to my compost bin. It grew into a humongous plant that twined itself around my garden beans, Climbing rose and 2 trees. Most of the flowers didn’t develop into fruits, and the slugs ate some. However I was left with 3 giant greeny/blue large round squashes. They are currently drying
Fork handles? Juniper bushes? Mike, no-one presents variety entertainment quite like yourself. The fishing segment was great, not because of the fish or lack thereof, but the setting and history was so interesting. Thanks.
My parents planted a fuyu persimmon tree last year and they harvested their first crop last month. When they get as soft as that, I like to pop the leafy bit off and scoop out the insides with a spoon. They're also delicious frozen. Also, that fishing segment was so relaxing. I hope one day you'll make a fishing Slow TV episode - four hours of uninterrupted fishing with wave sounds and gravel crunching would be amazing.
You can grow persimmons in the UK (in the south of the UK anyway). I've a Fuyu variety that I planted this year. Figs also do well, despite the colder summer this year I've had a good (but late) harvest.
I really enjoyed the fishing segment, the ocean sounds were magnificent, really makes me want to go get my rod and go do a lil fishing myself, havent been for years. also never really seen anyone sea fish up close, interesting to see the lures etc, might be worth looking into myself, mostly just done rivers and lochs myself
From SDSU (and my own experience here in Norway): Most winter squash have pretty good frost tolerance, as long as they don't get exposed to a hard freeze where the temperature might get down to 28° for more than a couple hours. If a heavy frost or freeze is predicted, you can cover your squash with old blankets or a tarp to provide some protection. This is, as they say not really needed but if a really bad frost is expected, a regular tarp actually protects them well. No need to go blanket, just something to create a bit of a calm and reflect back some heat from the ground.
I like that beach. Anything with multitudes of very round rocks just makes my brain go burrrrrrr. That fishing section was pretty aesthetic in general, and the surf noises were a very pleasant accompaniment to my writing.
I live in the blue mountains Australia, I go for a forage around when I can, and get into mostly introduced species. I end up finding a few introduced tidbits from your adventures in the woods. Mostly saffron milk caps here fungus wise, but i've somewhat diversified into suillus species. Thanks for sharing your ideas, I have has made many peach pies from the wild trees growing in our area now, we seem to be the only people taking advantage of it other than the parrots.
Good luck attracting the hummingbird hawk-moths! It was wild to see the one I did - 55 years and there's still always something new to see; their bodies are surprisingly big! Quick (and late) edit: the moths I saw were sniffing around geraniums. The proper old-fashioned ones our mums used to grow. It's been on my list for years to travel down to the south/Jurassic coast, but I'll have to keep my rock collecting fingers away from Budleigh Salterton :) All the best, and be well.
Aaaand thats why its called fishing and not catching 😂but its always a pleasant time just getting out there! (I fish too). Great video as always, many thanks!
Hi Mike. I've been a subscriber to your channel for a few years now. I just want to say how much your videos help my mental health. I'm a lover of the outdoors myself and share some of the same passions as you. Your videos seem to help me in times of low mood and depression. Watching your videos just seems to perk me up and makes me think 'it's ok for a while, I've got a man who is sharing our common passions'. Just watching any of your videos helps me (especially the foraging ones) . Please keep doing what you are doing. Kind regards 😃
36:00 The problem is that certain apps that run in the background can mess with your microphones to introduce a clipping, popping, static, or crackling sounds. Especially at the beginning of the recording. I've it come on multiple android phones and it's literally a hunting game of finding out what is the offensive 3rd party app by uninstalling, resetting caches, toggling microphone permissions, and reinstalling apps if you're not willing to go through a factory reset of your phone.
Talking of the graded beach stones, i wonder if we are literally witnessing the very slow formation process of what will eventually become sand beaches. its amazing to see each stage of the graded beach stones as they slowly grind each other down over millions of years.
I like the idea of using multiple SD cards. I have been using really big ones when filming my adventures. I might try using smaller ones to help catalogue the shots so I can find particular footage easier 👍
I bought one of those weekly pill organiser boxes to put them in once they are full. It doesn't really matter too much to me as I tend to dump them all in one folder when I get home, but separate cards make me feel a bit more comfortable travelling without the laptop.
Ah, going to the beach, wearing shorts, fishing! Here I got a foot of snow outside and an extra blanket trying to keep warm XD. Thanks for bringing a taste of warmer days back =)
Thank you for taking us to Chesil beach. Completely different from my expectations. Watching your explorations from across the water in Guernsey is fascinating.
Wow, I had the same phone for 4 years. My favorite feature is remote control in it - you can turn on or off (or change things on) almost anything with your phone!
The persimmon looks like an interesting fruit, thanks for bringing it up, I never heard about it before watching your video. As it turns out I could grow this in my garden, it would survive our moderately cold winters in Hungary so I'm now contemplating getting a plant. One thing I found while reading up about this plant that might help with the slow ripening of the fruits you get in Tesco: The growers store it away from other fruits when they store it in for the winter and they recommend to put it in a basket along with apples when they want ripe fruits. The apples produce ethylene which speeds up the ripening process so you get ripe persimmon fruits in a few days
Mike - It's funny you should mention the Merlin app. I sometimes use it in my back garden, and this morning I ran it (I hadn't seen this video). I noticed that an option that allowed the user to alter the gain on the mic, both increase and decrease it, had been removed. I increased it when I first downloaded Merlin several months ago. I wonder if you, either deliberately or inadvertently, did the same thing and increased the gain causing the problem you described. And, more pertinently, maybe that's why the feature was removed.
Thanks for this. I didn't consciously notice the option but I might have inadvertently fiddled with it at some point. This does add a little bit of support to my hypothesis!
I'm constantly in awe of your energy. All that way to the top of the white cliff in Spain and back in last week's video, then in this week's, not only walking right over to Portland and along Chesil Beach but then all that fishing, knowing you still have to walk all that way back. And then just casually throwing in that you plan to walk its 16 miles next year, knowing how much harder it is to walk on small pebbles and shingle. What stamina!
"I don't remember planting that". ROFLMAO Imagine being the person that packs those seed packets and they slip in a couple of the peter peppers into other peppers just to give people a surprise.
Butternuts and other winter squash can be left until a light frost kills the leaves to maximize maturity,the fruit won't ruin unless there's icing or a really deep freeze.You can throw a spun row cover or even a sheet or blanket over them to get them through an occasional frosty night until there's really cold weather.Not sure where you lived and walked in the woods before but it looked like a swampier area.This area is obviously much drier.I went the opposite,from the extremely dry Southwest to Kentucky ,where it rains constantly.That white asparagus reminds me of chaparral plant.You eat American persimmons after a freeze,not sure about those Japanese ones.(googled,yes,freeze unripe Japanese ones for 24 hours to start them ripening)Those waves are nowhere as ferocious as The Pacific when it's in a mood but it does look like there might be a dangerous undertow going on.If the outflow sucks real hard at your feet best not to go deeper than ankles is something I have experience of.
Why does someone with no interest in fishing, is allergic to wild mushrooms watch nearly an hour and a half of atomic shrimp talking about all this? I don’t know but I do. You could say I’m hooked.
when you mentioned looking forward to the persimmons it reminded me of my dad, every time he goes to greece he always talks about how excited he is to eat good fruit. particularly fresh & ripe figs. which i understand! absolutely delicious! we live in sweden so getting really good fruit is kinda out of the question most of the time hahahaha
It was lovely seeing the Shrimp Silhouette against the Lovely Sky with the polished egg like rocks in the foreground. I thought of a way you could incorporate you might be able to incorporate a bit of fishing into your budget challenge. Just fish for a while (weeks months whatever it takes) and save some of the 'free' cleaned fish in the freezer for whenever you do the challenge. It would then be a freezer meal challenge of a sort. thanks for the lovely video of the English seaside. Jim Mexico
I really enjoyed watching you fish. It would have been extra nice if you had caught something of course, but even so it was a bit of lovely Slow TV with the sound of the surf and the lovely sunset, and watching your silhouette as you cast and reeled in your line was just a nice way to spend a few minutes. I hope you do more fishing in the future, even if not as part of a budget challenge.
I live in the far north of Canada. We all keep old blankets to cover our plants on cold fall nights when there's a risk of frost. We take the blankets off first thing in the morning. We don't harvest unripe fruits and vegetables until a hard frost is forecast. It usually buys us a couple of extra weeks growing/ripening time. If you don't have old blankets to use, cardboard also works quite well.
Your videos are always a nice watch, but especially today for me, as i took the day off due to a migraine. The fishing part is especially soothing. Thank you ❤
I don't know which part of this video was better- all of those rocks or fishing with atomic shrimp. As a rock collector, not being able to pick up even one stone on that beach would be torture for me, but seeing them was lovely. I enjoyed watching you fish! Even though you didn't catch one, listening to your commentary and speculating about whether you would was fun. Please take us all fishing with you again if you fish some more!
I learned today that buzzards in the UK are hawks. In the US we sometimes call vultures buzzards, apparently because early explorers saw a big bird and called it a buzzard.
The Spanish fruit there looks a lot like the persimmons we sometimes get in the eastern US. They're really only edible after the first frost of the year: they're beautiful and sweet then. Any earlier, and they're like trying to eat a towel.
Kaki means persimmon in Spanish and Japanese. The boratical name for a type of persimmon is Diospyros kaki. So, old words persimmons are often called kaki fruit. It is cute how Mike's accent makes it sound like "Car Keys"
@@morgantrias3103Sharon Fruit is a specific variety of persimmon (in the same way Bramley is a variety of apple); 'kaki' just comes from the botanical name for the species (Diospyros kaki)
Absolutely love these videos, especially the comment positivity section! It's become my favourite thing to watch whilst building miniatures. Thank you for recording your adventures and sharing them with us.
Eva was taking her job as Comment Positivity co-host quite seriously.
Watching Eva dig enthusiastically for the inevitable rock made me literally lol. Going through a particularly stressful time and this peaceful video was therapeutic. Thank you!
Eva always cracks me up. Adorably goofy.
I hope you’re now out of your stressful situation ❤
Love Shrimp's vids, whether it's scambaiting or cooking. Hope you're doing well these days man :)
Wow! The sound of the sea rolling in and out over the gravel is amazing. It would be great to have a long clip of this to go to sleep too.
It's surprisingly calming despite being so loud!
I've been listening to nature sounds, and it's definitely been relaxing.
Probably a good thing Eva stayed home while you were fishing, her poor little heart might've given out from all those perfect stones needing rescuing 😂
Great video as always!
Hey Mr.shrimp love all your videos thanks for creating them!
I did have a possible video suggestion, which I thought would be entertaining, and I'm sure you've thought about this before, but what about an iron chef challenge.
I was thinking if Jenny would be a good sport about it, she could go to the market and get a few items, and then she would give them to you to create a meal. She could also control the variables, whether you're allowed foraging or spices, etc.
Just an idea! Have a great day!
As a Scotsman who was born and raised into adulthood by the coast but now lives in Madrid (coming on 10 years), I really really miss open water. Whenever I am at a beach I always feel "whole" or "grounded". It's a sensation I find hard to explain, almost like a muscle in the neck that I've been tensing continuously relaxes as soon as I'm at the coast, feeling the cool breeze, hearing the waves and smelling the sea. It's just fantastic.
Agreed, I grew up near lakes and streams. Lately I found a little fountain that I can sit by, and it's built so there is a little running section of it.
It got cold, then I thought: TH-cam. Turns out there are a lot. It would be great to have the real thing, but the recorded variety isn't bad.
This channel is brilliant… it’s like a breath of fresh air in the smog of YT… I absolutely love your rambling walks in the countryside. Many thanks to you and Jenny, and cheers ✌️
Ooh, I would very much look forward to a Chesil Beach trek and Pebble Size Gradient Spreadsheet video next year (maybe with custom measuring equipment?).
I'm trying to figure out a strategy for the measuring; I need to sample at intervals, and there will be quite a lot of intervals; I need to sample more than one rock at each interval so we get a representative sample, and I need to do this all in one day, because there's no way off the beach at the halfway point.
I was thinking I might just carefully weigh a cup of pebbles at each stop, and count them, which will give me an average weight per pebble, but then the physical dimensions of the pebbles might also have some hidden secrets, so I haven't figured out a workable plan yet
Yeah, lots of possibilities. I was considering pebble-volume calculation through displacement (bucket, pebbles, locally-available brine), but given the force of that tide I fear it may get you into deep water...
@@AtomicShrimp had a thought that it could be interesting to have samples from lower shelves as well as higher shelves, but that is considerably more workload
@@redapplefour6223 yeah. I think I need to find a local college teacher looking for a class assignment or something
This whole thread makes my little nerd heart so happy.
talking about the coppiced chestnuts, the part about "handles for rakes" made me think of the iconic Four Candles sketch.
Same here! 😂😂
Me too! Love that sketch :)
Gotta be honest, if you uploaded an hour long video of you just fishing on the beach so I can listen to those waves crash against the pebbly shore I'd listen to that when I have some trouble falling asleep. Incredibly soothing and brought back some of my childhood memories of going to the beach with my parents on vacation. City guy here, so the closest to sea sound that I can hear aside from videos is the sound of my blood flow echoing in a seashell.
I’m kicking myself for deleting my comment on the video on the walk in Spain with the “unnamed cave”. Now after seeing Eva today- I think I’m over my sudden onset of shyness and say- let’s call the cave “Las Rocas de Eva” ; Eva’s Rocks (aren’t they all?)
it truly makes the most sense to me. Excuse my online translator use may be off a bit.
The fishing video was very relaxing hearing the waves come in. Thank you for the bit of zen.
As i watched the video I chuckled thinking about how you could NEVER take Eva to that bit of beach. She would lose her mind with all those stones! 😂😂😂😂
😂 Yeah she would!!
The consideration of the "Pause to read in full" just about sums your channel up,
Thanks for letting us tag along on your trips and making them more interesting. Also kudos for actually taking feedback about your audio seriously. I think a lot of professional 'tubers put so much money and effort into their setups that it's impossible to determine what won't work for people who need to rely on basic gear for general stuff.
Just want to say I really love these longer videos. Something nice to watch after a stressful week at work! Great way to unwind. Thank you 😊
I like "crying rock is crying" and "there is always an orange!".
The final scene of you fishing was very good. Asteticly pleasing. Nice camera andgle, the sound and the sunset.
Amazing Video yet again, I grew up in Dorset for most of my life so great to see you exploring all the places I know so well and seeing them from a different point of view, sometimes people get so used to a certain place and dont appriciate it the same way. Chesil beach and Bowleaze cove were always so relaxing to me, to just sit down and reflect on things growing up and even now, ill never forget both the silence in the air and the sound of the sea when sat on those pebbled beaches. (Silence and Sound) * next album name btw
As usual this Random Stuff video is jam packed full of fascinating stuff, not the least of which is in fact jam. The beach, Spain, fossils, hummingbird moths, crying rock-- just great! Love the fishing too! Don't know if it is catching because I haven't got to the end. Even if it isn't catching, its a lot of fun.
Was casually enjoying all the parts of the video and then you got to fishing. As far as I’m concerned that was a grand finale. Beautiful place. Masterful shot framing. And the sound of the pebbles rolling over each other in the surf. I am so relaxed right now.
Squashes actually ripen and cure off the vine quite well for me. I have a short growing season so always have to pick them early but they continue to colour up indoors and I've had no problem storing them for several months at room temp.
A wee tip for the fishing. In my experience fishing on the west coast of Scotland, mackerel are hard to catch from the beach (for me at least). However, when I have been successful it's because I have been very patient. When you cast, my theory is that you need to give a little time for the feathers/bait/hook to settle - don't start to reel straight away. Then, personally, I reel in a twitchier way - trying to replicate the erratic movements of little sea animals.
On the other hand, in a boat a bit further out, I find mackerel very easy to catch. Once you find them, they practically jump on board.
It was so relaxing to watch you fishing, especially with the wave sounds in the background!
The sound of the waves on the gravel is lovely.
The sad rock was actually a stone age emoji. It is thought that cave men would lob them into each others caves. A very primitive but effective form of texting, in fact it also had it's own customisable ring tone...Usually "ooooooh" or "owwww" but that was up to the recipient.
😂😂😂 Brilliant! 😂😂😂
Ahh, that fishing section was just mesmerizing, such beautiful sky ❤
That's a garden spider, a female one due to its round abdomen. There was a huge one in our conservatory a couple of months ago and it would eat its own web every night (apparently this is normal and not mental illness as my sister suggested!).
Sister has issues thinking that spiders suffer from mental illnesses. Let’s get her committed 😂
Producing a net is a huge expense of protein for a spider. I don‘t think they can afford to build a new one from scratch every time, so they consume it for raw material.
A bit surprised that you find beech unproductive. I find oyster mushrooms on dead beech, trompe des morts in young beech growth, and also hedgehog mushrooms and even ceps partnered with beech.
The sunset at the end... What an absolute treat 😍
49:56 I heard you say "small b--" for "small bird" and my brain filled in the rest as "small boy" before you had finished speaking. It was very funny hahahaha
I wonder if we could get some slow TV at the beach like this? perhaps with you fishing?
@1:03:45 It takes a lot more effort to walk in gravel as well, so it would pair well with a field ration video!
Love the Way Eva Looks into the camera whilst on the arm of the chair
I remember on a geography school trip we threw an orange into the see and then observed longshore drift in action as it washed up further along from where it was thrown, maybe youre just finding all these left over experimental oranges haha
Your enthusiasm to try new things is wonderful, definitely encourages me to venture outside my comfort zone.
Loved the can of Fresh Gas in the persimmon section.....
The filming of you fishing looked absolutely amazing. Perfect camera angle, distance and the lighting made it look like a work of art. Very nice!
Walking along the whole lenght of that beach just to watch the pebbles slowly and gradually changing in size seems like something I would verry much enjoy doing.
Your discussion about always living on the south coast reminded me of a realization I had in the past few years.... everywhere that I have lived (many houses & apartments) has been on a north-south running road where the building I lived in faced east. This was never intentional, but I thought a very surprising coincidence!
12:02 It is quite remarkable to see Eva sniff out and hunt up a rock under the forest detritus.
29:18 Does the can in the background say "Fresh Gas?" .
I love the sound of the surf.
Thank you.
The 'Fresh Gas' made me laugh - not sure I fancy that!
It does say fresh gas, but it really just means 'fresh sparkling' as you either get agua con gas, or sin gas (sparkling or still) water. I assume this is maybe a sparkling lemonade.
MrShrimp/Mike, I so enjoyed your trip to the ocean. I live near the Pacific ocean outside of San Francisco in California, and it's a totally different kind of beach, just stand. The pebbles look amazing, but must be horribly difficult to walk on. Thank you for taking us with you. And.... I loved the 'dance' of you and the sea, silhouetted against the near sunset. Beautiful, and that was a different kind of a harvest. Thank you so much for all you offer to us.
I love these long videos of yours! I am currently staying a lot of home alone due my sickness and it feels like I have nice company with me. :) Thank you!
If rocks were edible you would be full with Eva’s help, love your videos!
Thank you for films like that, they mend my heart, little by little 🌼
I’m listening to this video while I work and the sound of the crashing waves is so soothing. Same with the lovely crunching sound of walking on the pebbles. Great for a sleepy Monday.
I live very far from the ocean and i'd never thought of people standing on a beach like that fishing. It was very interesting to see. It looked beautiful & must have been fun. I've usually fished on small lakes or alow moving rivers. Often times off a dock or from a boat. That beach looked really interesting. I'd love to see you doument the pebbles. Great video!
Yay! Another random stuff video. Weather is terrible in Toronto today so this will be a great watch when I get home! Looking forward it
i didn't realize rocks have a smell. its interesting how eva seems to always sniff one out and dig for it
My dad has lots of amazing (and scary) stories about fishing Chesil Beach in his youth - including thick fog, gale force winds, crashing waves, etc.
It was lovely to put a picture to these stories, as I have never been myself. I can imagine what it would have been like to go fishing with him here! Thanks Shrimp
Yeah, it's not quite possible to capture on camera the relentless power of the surf on these beaches - when the waves crash down onto all those lovely rounded pebbles, there is just no firm footing and people can find themselves slipping down straight into deep water - even climbing back up the dry bank to the top of the beach, it's a case of slipping backwards nearly as quickly as you're stepping forward
Those kakis looked delicious!
Have you ever had sujeonggwa? It's a Korean winter punch made with dried kaki fruits. Having watched you dehydrate a lot of things over time, I thought you might enjoy making it!
For the first time ever, a ‘volunteer’ squash appeared next to my compost bin. It grew into a humongous plant that twined itself around my garden beans, Climbing rose and 2 trees. Most of the flowers didn’t develop into fruits, and the slugs ate some. However I was left with 3 giant greeny/blue large round squashes. They are currently drying
Fork handles? Juniper bushes? Mike, no-one presents variety entertainment quite like yourself. The fishing segment was great, not because of the fish or lack thereof, but the setting and history was so interesting. Thanks.
My parents planted a fuyu persimmon tree last year and they harvested their first crop last month. When they get as soft as that, I like to pop the leafy bit off and scoop out the insides with a spoon. They're also delicious frozen. Also, that fishing segment was so relaxing. I hope one day you'll make a fishing Slow TV episode - four hours of uninterrupted fishing with wave sounds and gravel crunching would be amazing.
You can grow persimmons in the UK (in the south of the UK anyway). I've a Fuyu variety that I planted this year.
Figs also do well, despite the colder summer this year I've had a good (but late) harvest.
I really enjoyed the fishing segment, the ocean sounds were magnificent, really makes me want to go get my rod and go do a lil fishing myself, havent been for years. also never really seen anyone sea fish up close, interesting to see the lures etc, might be worth looking into myself, mostly just done rivers and lochs myself
From SDSU (and my own experience here in Norway):
Most winter squash have pretty good frost tolerance, as long as they don't get exposed to a hard freeze where the temperature might get down to 28° for more than a couple hours. If a heavy frost or freeze is predicted, you can cover your squash with old blankets or a tarp to provide some protection.
This is, as they say not really needed but if a really bad frost is expected, a regular tarp actually protects them well. No need to go blanket, just something to create a bit of a calm and reflect back some heat from the ground.
fishings great, great fun gets you outside and you have fish you know was caught responsibly.
good to know you do this
I like that beach. Anything with multitudes of very round rocks just makes my brain go burrrrrrr.
That fishing section was pretty aesthetic in general, and the surf noises were a very pleasant accompaniment to my writing.
I live in the blue mountains Australia, I go for a forage around when I can, and get into mostly introduced species. I end up finding a few introduced tidbits from your adventures in the woods. Mostly saffron milk caps here fungus wise, but i've somewhat diversified into suillus species. Thanks for sharing your ideas, I have has made many peach pies from the wild trees growing in our area now, we seem to be the only people taking advantage of it other than the parrots.
Good luck attracting the hummingbird hawk-moths! It was wild to see the one I did - 55 years and there's still always something new to see; their bodies are surprisingly big! Quick (and late) edit: the moths I saw were sniffing around geraniums. The proper old-fashioned ones our mums used to grow.
It's been on my list for years to travel down to the south/Jurassic coast, but I'll have to keep my rock collecting fingers away from Budleigh Salterton :)
All the best, and be well.
Aaaand thats why its called fishing and not catching 😂but its always a pleasant time just getting out there! (I fish too).
Great video as always, many thanks!
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Hi Mike. I've been a subscriber to your channel for a few years now. I just want to say how much your videos help my mental health. I'm a lover of the outdoors myself and share some of the same passions as you. Your videos seem to help me in times of low mood and depression. Watching your videos just seems to perk me up and makes me think 'it's ok for a while, I've got a man who is sharing our common passions'. Just watching any of your videos helps me (especially the foraging ones) . Please keep doing what you are doing. Kind regards 😃
I loved the moth footage. They Might Be Giants wrote a song about that moth called The Bee of the Bird of the Moth and its one of my favorites
36:00 The problem is that certain apps that run in the background can mess with your microphones to introduce a clipping, popping, static, or crackling sounds. Especially at the beginning of the recording. I've it come on multiple android phones and it's literally a hunting game of finding out what is the offensive 3rd party app by uninstalling, resetting caches, toggling microphone permissions, and reinstalling apps if you're not willing to go through a factory reset of your phone.
Talking of the graded beach stones, i wonder if we are literally witnessing the very slow formation process of what will eventually become sand beaches. its amazing to see each stage of the graded beach stones as they slowly grind each other down over millions of years.
I like the idea of using multiple SD cards. I have been using really big ones when filming my adventures.
I might try using smaller ones to help catalogue the shots so I can find particular footage easier 👍
I bought one of those weekly pill organiser boxes to put them in once they are full. It doesn't really matter too much to me as I tend to dump them all in one folder when I get home, but separate cards make me feel a bit more comfortable travelling without the laptop.
@@AtomicShrimp that's a brilliant idea if you're using the one sd card a day idea
If Boris can throw lockdown parties then this man should get to smuggle wild asparagus seeds
Ah, going to the beach, wearing shorts, fishing! Here I got a foot of snow outside and an extra blanket trying to keep warm XD. Thanks for bringing a taste of warmer days back =)
Thank you for taking us to Chesil beach. Completely different from my expectations. Watching your explorations from across the water in Guernsey is fascinating.
Wow, I had the same phone for 4 years. My favorite feature is remote control in it - you can turn on or off (or change things on) almost anything with your phone!
The persimmon looks like an interesting fruit, thanks for bringing it up, I never heard about it before watching your video. As it turns out I could grow this in my garden, it would survive our moderately cold winters in Hungary so I'm now contemplating getting a plant. One thing I found while reading up about this plant that might help with the slow ripening of the fruits you get in Tesco: The growers store it away from other fruits when they store it in for the winter and they recommend to put it in a basket along with apples when they want ripe fruits. The apples produce ethylene which speeds up the ripening process so you get ripe persimmon fruits in a few days
That's how I ripen them when I buy them here - it sometimes still takes weeks and weeks though
Thanks for the tip.
Mike - It's funny you should mention the Merlin app. I sometimes use it in my back garden, and this morning I ran it (I hadn't seen this video). I noticed that an option that allowed the user to alter the gain on the mic, both increase and decrease it, had been removed. I increased it when I first downloaded Merlin several months ago. I wonder if you, either deliberately or inadvertently, did the same thing and increased the gain causing the problem you described. And, more pertinently, maybe that's why the feature was removed.
Thanks for this. I didn't consciously notice the option but I might have inadvertently fiddled with it at some point. This does add a little bit of support to my hypothesis!
I'm constantly in awe of your energy. All that way to the top of the white cliff in Spain and back in last week's video, then in this week's, not only walking right over to Portland and along Chesil Beach but then all that fishing, knowing you still have to walk all that way back. And then just casually throwing in that you plan to walk its 16 miles next year, knowing how much harder it is to walk on small pebbles and shingle. What stamina!
that beach fishing reminded me of spending time on the beach with my dad in the 90s in daytona florida. thanks for that
"I don't remember planting that". ROFLMAO Imagine being the person that packs those seed packets and they slip in a couple of the peter peppers into other peppers just to give people a surprise.
Thank you for your great channel, Mr. Shrimp. Been watching for years.
Butternuts and other winter squash can be left until a light frost kills the leaves to maximize maturity,the fruit won't ruin unless there's icing or a really deep freeze.You can throw a spun row cover or even a sheet or blanket over them to get them through an occasional frosty night until there's really cold weather.Not sure where you lived and walked in the woods before but it looked like a swampier area.This area is obviously much drier.I went the opposite,from the extremely dry Southwest to Kentucky ,where it rains constantly.That white asparagus reminds me of chaparral plant.You eat American persimmons after a freeze,not sure about those Japanese ones.(googled,yes,freeze unripe Japanese ones for 24 hours to start them ripening)Those waves are nowhere as ferocious as The Pacific when it's in a mood but it does look like there might be a dangerous undertow going on.If the outflow sucks real hard at your feet best not to go deeper than ankles is something I have experience of.
Why does someone with no interest in fishing, is allergic to wild mushrooms watch nearly an hour and a half of atomic shrimp talking about all this? I don’t know but I do. You could say I’m hooked.
I watch cooking all of the time, but barely use anything I see. Enjoyment is enjoyment!!!
when you mentioned looking forward to the persimmons it reminded me of my dad, every time he goes to greece he always talks about how excited he is to eat good fruit. particularly fresh & ripe figs. which i understand! absolutely delicious!
we live in sweden so getting really good fruit is kinda out of the question most of the time hahahaha
Obviously you caught that orange mid migration.
It was lovely seeing the Shrimp Silhouette against the Lovely Sky with the polished egg like rocks in the foreground. I thought of a way you could incorporate you might be able to incorporate a bit of fishing into your budget challenge. Just fish for a while (weeks months whatever it takes) and save some of the 'free' cleaned fish in the freezer for whenever you do the challenge. It would then be a freezer meal challenge of a sort. thanks for the lovely video of the English seaside. Jim Mexico
I really enjoyed watching you fish. It would have been extra nice if you had caught something of course, but even so it was a bit of lovely Slow TV with the sound of the surf and the lovely sunset, and watching your silhouette as you cast and reeled in your line was just a nice way to spend a few minutes. I hope you do more fishing in the future, even if not as part of a budget challenge.
The gravel shingle sounds very nice as you walk on it. I love walking beaches.
I live in the far north of Canada. We all keep old blankets to cover our plants on cold fall nights when there's a risk of frost. We take the blankets off first thing in the morning. We don't harvest unripe fruits and vegetables until a hard frost is forecast. It usually buys us a couple of extra weeks growing/ripening time. If you don't have old blankets to use, cardboard also works quite well.
Your videos are always a nice watch, but especially today for me, as i took the day off due to a migraine. The fishing part is especially soothing. Thank you ❤
Love your videos & glad to see you going fishing 🎣. Thanks Atomic shrimp 🦐🤗
I don't know which part of this video was better- all of those rocks or fishing with atomic shrimp. As a rock collector, not being able to pick up even one stone on that beach would be torture for me, but seeing them was lovely.
I enjoyed watching you fish! Even though you didn't catch one, listening to your commentary and speculating about whether you would was fun. Please take us all fishing with you again if you fish some more!
Always a surprise when you find a Peter Pepper where you didn't expect!
I learned today that buzzards in the UK are hawks. In the US we sometimes call vultures buzzards, apparently because early explorers saw a big bird and called it a buzzard.
I always feel good watching your videos! Thank you, you're awesome!
'Look at the size of that spider' currently sharing my bathroom with a Huntsman that I heard chuckle
Congrats on catching all of those genticles!
The Spanish fruit there looks a lot like the persimmons we sometimes get in the eastern US. They're really only edible after the first frost of the year: they're beautiful and sweet then. Any earlier, and they're like trying to eat a towel.
Kaki means persimmon in Spanish and Japanese. The boratical name for a type of persimmon is Diospyros kaki. So, old words persimmons are often called kaki fruit. It is cute how Mike's accent makes it sound like "Car Keys"
Yeah, even the colour Khaki is pretty much a homonym for 'car key' in my dialect.
I believe we call the Sharonfruit in the part of the UK I'm from. They seem to have a lot of names, I knew persimon but had never heard kaki.
@@morgantrias3103Sharon Fruit is a specific variety of persimmon (in the same way Bramley is a variety of apple); 'kaki' just comes from the botanical name for the species (Diospyros kaki)
You could marry your beach 🏖 walking 🚶♀️ with another MRE review Mr 🍤
I've never heard those 'Khaki' fruit called anything other than Sharon fruit or Persimmon, intersting!
Kaki is part of the botanical name for the tree - Diospyros kaki
Of course it's normal to have a favourite moth!! Thanks for the video lol those comments definitely had me positive!!
It's always interesting to me to see how two completely different locations can have the same types of wild fungi growing.
Humming bird hawk moths a relatively common sight here in South Yorkshire. They seem to particularly like the lavender plants in my garden.
Not only a Dumbledore beetle - also Asparagus ALBUS!
Frick yeah Mr Strimp great content as always
Absolutely love these videos, especially the comment positivity section! It's become my favourite thing to watch whilst building miniatures. Thank you for recording your adventures and sharing them with us.