Scotland's Easdale Island, Nature and Wildlife
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- 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 RUclips. 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.
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.
Did anyone just start getting this recommendation ? 😁
yup
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?
Doughall Macleod has to be the most Scottish name ever
Hamish McTavish
It's more Scottish than Angus Haggis-McSporan
Wait !..Boaty McBoatface ...ha
@@FIshfood500 hamish is irish
@@FIshfood500 i think
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...
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
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
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
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
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 RUclips know you don’t want to watch a particular type of video without disliking a persons content.
I don't know how I got here, but this was great.
great video and drone footage love history thanks for sharing
Thanks for the feedback 'Treasure Hunting Scotland'
I visited this beautiful island some years ago, would move in a heartbeat, thank you for sharing
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.
love the history of easdale
Id never heard of this lovely wee island. Thank you and Merry Christmas..
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).
Brilliant video about a fascinating island.
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!
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
A charming story in the midst of pandemic madness.
Wanna do me?
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 😂😂😂
Excellent thank you.
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.
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. 👍🏻
This was remarkably well produced for a passion project.
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?
No need for majestic music; the place is majestic enough.
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 ❤️
I camped on the hill a few years ago... beautiful
Beautiful place 👍🏻
Wow awesome video you have a New subscriber 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nice documentary, bro.
Dope narrator
Very well done sir.
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.
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.
Great video. I’m on the east coast but will be visiting as soon as the apocalypse ends. New subscriber 👍🏻
Every day is a learning day! Never heard o the place!
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!
Music was a bit to Hollywood for me.
Everyone wants to create a dramatic blockbuster instead of just a pleasant, informative video, it seems.
and to loud
too*
++Hi there++ Agreed! Far too much plinky plonky noises and unnecessary folk music clips when a nicely rounded Scottish voice would have been sufficient.
Outstanding video documentary, very well done indeed.
One wrong move and you could get impaled so not for me but an eye-opening well made documentary
It's sad to think, that we have all this beautiful scenery and history on our doorstep, yet not many are aware or care.
Bet the broadband there is horribly slow
brilliant documentary
nice island and nice video...........greetings from croatia
Thanks
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.
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.
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 😊
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
Beautifully shot film. Loved it. Man thanks.
used to deliver coal there up until June 2002 yellow lorry. FERGUSSOM with RED FLAMES coming up out of the U STIRLING DOUGIE , MYLASSIE Debbie or Debs red hair. LA LA DO YOU MIND OFUS .
HOOT MON!!YA KEN A BOWL OF HAGGIS MCGREGOR??
I'm surprised the Chinese haven't claimed it.
Give them time.
Now you’ve woke ’em up.....
What's the song / Singer in the first part of the video please?
The beautiful music is Postcard from the edge by Richard Lacy
@@AaronCookTC thanks so much! Happy new year!
Why do we build such ugly housing? The British Isles are plagued with it.
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
While I have seen very thin plates of basalt, I thought slate was derived from the metamorphoses of sedimentary rock, mainly heating of fine clay, that form flat thin cleavage planes.
That’s right
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?
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.
Nice doco, .... But can you get rid of the over dramatic "Hollywood" naff sound track! +!?!?.. Grrrrrr...
I'd love to do a summer camping/fishing trip there.
A social network friend of my lives there.
Should publish this to the BBC
The centre of slate trade?? Wales would like to say thats balls
Nice video, but next time please, quieter music.
Every town on all the scottish coasts are just like that' 😃👍🏼
You've never been to Ardrossan then......
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.
cracking wee video. I visited here, along with Isle of Seil, and Osle of Luing just 2 weeks ago.
Multiple requests for the song and artist used 1:37-2:03. Why have you not given credit to the Artist? Great video, nice, clean, crisp, well narrated, and very informative. Would it not bother you if I used a portion of your video and NOT give you credit? Please respond, your viewers are asking.
The beautiful music is Postcard from the edge by Richard Lacy
@@AaronCookTC Aaron, I graciously thank you! I wish you peace and happiness in this New Year and hope to see more of your talent!
100% beautiful. 👍
Love Scotland. My Home, My history... My future. (sadly we a run by the SNP who are out of touch with the public)
Out of touch the public... who overwhelmingly keep voting for them?
Unionist nonsense
Fascinating video about an island I’d never heard of, thanks for this!
Very nicely made. Love the soundtrack.
Plus the wisdom of knowing to cut the music for the speech. A rare skill indeed on YT.
I love being Scottish. Such a beautiful country .
🏴👍
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 ?
I wonder what life exists in those quarries
me too
Wonder if they have mobile signal
The storm of 1881 that flooded the quarries and ruined the island's industry came just two years after the "storm of the century" that caused the Tay Bridge Disaster. Must have been a hellish period for sailors.
all that patriarchy and male privilege we hear so much about.
Can I come and live here please?
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.
This is the right kind of place for me and character ,
awesome place was only there in jan
Looks like an amazing place to live! Whats the internet access like? And why is one of the water filled quarries in this video a different color?
The majority of people now living there are dependant on a decent internet access for their employment.
some places have internet. Shadows and depths
Just what I need
Good video loved womens voice
vISITED TWICE ON MOTORBIKE. eNJOYED YOUR VIDEO AND STUNNING AERIAL SHOTS. tHANK YOU
No quality pumps???? As Holland laughs just across the channel......
By that time, britain had mastered steam engines and pumping it out would have been easy if someone payed to do it. Mines in cornwall had pumps able to do it for about 150years.
Yet they managed to build the Caledonian Canal?
Water must be seeping from the sea into the pits, as there is no way those pits have not dried out after 140 years.
Brilliant video about a fascinating island.
If all those Quarrys were flooded in 1881 and there was 500 on the island of that size as stated in that feature .
My question is how many died if none ..It's ethier a miracle or someone doesn't know the full extent of the aftermath . And due to the low laying nature of the Island i reckon the waves would have been in excess of 20ft or more to flood those deep quarrys with such ease .
@Gavin D I never said or used the words Tidal wave . What i do find surprising .. that the person that uploaded the footage hasn't even responded to my vaild question which i do find astonishing .Even though the event happend in 1881 there has to be some written record or oral account passed down from generation to generation .
Great video. Much enjoyed.
Doughal, when are you going to come visit your brother in Witshire. I'm only 3 mile fea the stane. and we can go rub up on some barrows hmmmmmmmmm
Really well produced and informative. Well done. I'll be learning some more from your archive.
Please can you do more interesting 10 min Doc/films on "Highlands of Scotland pure magic ✨"👌👍😎 fabulous !!!
Beautiful! I adore Scotland
I went to Easdale many moons ago.
i think the production value here is unnecessarily high, excellent of course, but i feel like a more complete and rich documentary is possible with further effort into research, after all, that's what documentaries are for, not to be all fancy and flashy
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.
Anyone know the name of the song at 1:55 ?
The beautiful music is Postcard from the edge by Richard Lacy
@@AaronCookTC Much appreciated mate.
Very informative and nice video!
Could anyone tell me what the song is that's used around the 1:40 mark? Great documentary and such a beautiful island!