Mersea Island - The Wild Edge Of Essex

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  • Опубликовано: 19 мар 2016
  • A documentary celebrating the wildlife of Mersea Island, the most easterly inhabited island in the United Kingdom. Marsh harriers, watervoles, red squirrels, and numerous wintering birds are just a few of the species featured.
    Narrated by Terrence Hardiman.
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  • @nicolabjork2533
    @nicolabjork2533 2 года назад +6

    I've only just now come across this delightful video, and it took me straight back to my childhood in West Mersea in the 50s. Lots of exploratory paddling through the mud at low tide, especially over what we children called ”Crab Island”, a stretch of algae covered mud cut through by the retreating tidewaters, making mounds able to take our weight, and which sheltered hundreds of crabs. Reed beds, where we made mazes and hid from each other, are gone now, giving way to water's-edge properties and artificially sandy beaches. Dinghy sailing in the sound off West Mersea Yacht Club, and suppers afterwards in the restaurant. Totally unsupervised days of seashells, sunshine, water, swimming - bliss! My grandfather owned and ran the White Hart, and my mother owned our house on Melrose Road. These memories have sustained me through a life of travel - I have visited every continent except Antarctica - but my heart lies in Mersea Island. Thank you for an unexpected and welcome meander through 60-year-old memories!

  • @chrisellis1089
    @chrisellis1089 7 лет назад +5

    A little gem of a documentary . . like the island itself . .an overlooked gem of a place.

  • @belinhafernandes
    @belinhafernandes 6 лет назад +1

    A charming movie! Mersea Island is not without beauty at all. What a paradise for birds!

  • @paulost5611
    @paulost5611 8 лет назад +8

    I often visit the island, I live only 9 miles away. This film makes me want to go back asap its a great credit to the producer and Mersea.

  • @carolynhobbs1537
    @carolynhobbs1537 8 лет назад +11

    I've not been to Mersea for a few years as a bit of a way. This makes me want to go back & visit as soon as I can. One of the most well made natural history films I've watched, a wonderful narrator.

    • @whitetipmediawildlife3065
      @whitetipmediawildlife3065  8 лет назад +1

      Thank you Carolyn :-)

    • @whatami4249
      @whatami4249 3 года назад

      Mate I live on Mersea and if you do come to live here don’t get involved with any drama it will always come back to you

  • @NicolePoliskey
    @NicolePoliskey 3 года назад +4

    I love this! I live in the US but I love seeing these beautifully done films. Thank you for sharing

  • @irfanullahkhan6379
    @irfanullahkhan6379 2 года назад +1

    Wow I well visit this place soon thanks for posting this video

  • @paulcowell7588
    @paulcowell7588 6 лет назад +5

    I'm sold....lived in essex for 15 years and never been to Mersea.imchanging that asap.

  • @whatami4249
    @whatami4249 3 года назад +2

    This makes me really proud of the island I live on

  • @mozdickson
    @mozdickson 4 года назад +1

    Congratulations to all involved, class. Brilliant photography too. May God bless all who work to nurture and protect this rich ecology.

  • @susanbond9702
    @susanbond9702 5 лет назад +2

    We visit twice a week...love it there....Parents lived on the Island for over 40 yrs too.

  • @graciousgrape3031
    @graciousgrape3031 7 лет назад +7

    A beautiful tribute to Mersea's wild life. Well done!

  • @PaulDoldenDetails
    @PaulDoldenDetails 7 лет назад +5

    I've lived here for over twenty years beautiful video nice one 👌🏻

  • @reggiewsks
    @reggiewsks 8 лет назад +5

    Great Advert for Mersea Island.

  • @CarolineMitchell
    @CarolineMitchell 5 лет назад +4

    This made the perfect setting for my psychological thriller book, Silent Victim.

  • @luyung4981
    @luyung4981 8 лет назад +5

    Excellent film, enjoyed it very much and found it very informative. It is indeed a gem of a place to live. Thank you.

  • @elizabethtrustrum5960
    @elizabethtrustrum5960 8 лет назад +11

    A Great Film! Congratulations! Wonderful footage and narration and very dramatic Sound Design. Good Luck with this and thank you for making something that shows the world how beautiful Essex is.

  • @BeyondthePoint
    @BeyondthePoint 4 года назад +2

    Very nicely shot and narrated, clearly a lot of work went into this

  • @thetherapycliniccic3994
    @thetherapycliniccic3994 6 лет назад +2

    A beautiful tribute to Mersea....and lovely to see it so professionally done with a voice and music to match.....and amazing photography! Well done1

  • @isctony
    @isctony Год назад

    A truly stunning film, well put together and beautiful narrated. Mersea is a special place

  • @CrystiDromgoole-rz1zt
    @CrystiDromgoole-rz1zt Год назад

    Lovely film ❤

  • @keithwelton
    @keithwelton 4 года назад

    I used to live nearby in Salcot cum Virley as a young adult. As a child i camped with my school twice at East Mersea. A lovely promotional film thanks for posting it.

  • @ianbell1314
    @ianbell1314 3 года назад

    Well done Matt Larkin. 👍 Remarkably professional production. Thoroughly enjoyable.

  • @boxes247
    @boxes247 8 лет назад +3

    Love this!

  • @Hollynichollslife
    @Hollynichollslife 8 лет назад +13

    I love mersea island i acctually own a static home/caravan on east merseas waldergraves site

    • @PaulDoldenDetails
      @PaulDoldenDetails 7 лет назад +1

      Hollynichollslife I live on west mersea love it 😍

    • @andygreen2775
      @andygreen2775 4 года назад +1

      great place.Bit mad when you want it, but peaceful and stunning when you need it..So many memories. Great fishing ( beach and lake ), and long walks, followed by long boozy BBQS . Unfinished business with the island !!. Will have a van there again in the next few years when the kids are trusted with the house on their own LOL. Six years when they were young, the best times of my life !!

  • @owenitfc
    @owenitfc 7 лет назад +3

    lovely!

  • @whatami4249
    @whatami4249 3 года назад +1

    For anyone who wants to go to mersea I recommend the black water Perl it’s a great cafe I have lived on the island for about 5 years and have gone there countless times

  • @benitobueno3373
    @benitobueno3373 3 года назад

    Extremely interesting and well filmed..many thanks

  • @annie5591
    @annie5591 8 лет назад +1

    Well done...what a lovely film!

  • @johncrow2457
    @johncrow2457 2 года назад

    super film. well put together. must be
    Charlie Waite doing the narration

  • @camponwater
    @camponwater 8 лет назад +1

    Super film. Thank you.

  • @VolareAlto
    @VolareAlto 4 года назад +2

    Great vid..

  • @richardiangregerson1047
    @richardiangregerson1047 3 года назад

    Been a lot over the years amazing video 😍

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 2 года назад +1

    Paradise.
    Song by Coldplay.

  • @kevinboyd88
    @kevinboyd88 4 года назад

    Absolutely stunning film, a joy to watch. Having lived on the island for many years, moved away now, you should make a film.on the inhabitants, a very different story lol

  • @Yamaprilia
    @Yamaprilia 8 лет назад +1

    awsome vid

  • @southlondon86
    @southlondon86 Год назад

    RIP Terrence Hardiman

    • @robnewman6101
      @robnewman6101 Год назад

      I'm sorry to hear of that.
      ⛪➕✝️💐

  • @johnbuoy50
    @johnbuoy50 3 месяца назад

    I always love the comment - most eastern inhabited in England - what about Horsey Island in the Walton Back waters ? I know the family that live on it !

  • @Vanman-ed9og
    @Vanman-ed9og 4 года назад

    If you love mud then Mersea is for you.

  • @aapfom
    @aapfom 7 лет назад +1

    Oysters!!

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  • @Peterpan-mu2qt
    @Peterpan-mu2qt 5 лет назад +1

    Very good apart when u said a snake is poisonous. No snake is. It's venomous....

    • @TheFever77
      @TheFever77 Год назад

      It is if you eat it, lol!

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      @Peterpan-mu2qt Год назад

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  • @si4632
    @si4632 6 лет назад

    flat as a pancake