Charmouth Beach Treasures
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- čas přidán 22. 03. 2024
- The weather is wet and windy, but we're not going to let that stop us taking a trip to the beach to see what treasures we can find along the shore...
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Jenny's arm flaps at the beggining were too cute!
I'm glad Eva was keeping warm :3
I wonder if Studio Shrimp ever gets envious of Explorer Shrimp because he's just stuck at home all the time
I've mentioned before that I grew up in East Devon and used to visit Lyme Regis a lot. My eldest brother used to love taking a day to walk from Lyme to Charmouth to look for fossils. He was very aware of the tide times and carried a little alarm clock so he turned back at the right time and never had to be rescued! He found a lot of small ammonites and belemnites, plus a pocket full of iron pyrites. He gave us the less perfect examples but carefully logged and kept the best. So many memories evoked by your beach walks! Thank you x
Yeah, having moved here from Hampshire, there's a whole different angle to tide observations. I always used to keep an eye on the tide before, because on the beaches of the solent, high tide just means not much beach to explore. Down here in Dorset, being on the beach when the tide is rising there's a significant risk of getting dangerously cut off.
I always start my walks at high tide, means you have at least 12 hours 👍🏾
I just got home from visiting a sick pet at the veterinary hospital. Thank you for distracting me and cheering me up.
Aw, I'm sorry!
I hope it gets better soon!
Thanks for your thoughts. Home now and asleep on my lap. Hopefully, he'll be OK.
@@kimbledunster🙏🙏🙏
That sort of weather, at the seaside, is my ideal kind. Roaring sea and offshore wind, making it deliciously bracing - not cold, but bracing, which feels good, especially if you are wearing the right sort of clothing. That, coincidentally, seems to be something older people do (I'm 60, so I guess that makes me 'older') - but I often see younger people, soaked to the skin, and obviously freezing cold in what are probably very expensive fashionable coats. I wear a lot of cheap military surplus clothing, and always gloves, and a hat of some kind, and I'm warm and dry. Function over Form, every time, for me. A walk like that is always best, if a good café or pub is at the end of it, I find.
Lovely video, as always - you can almost taste the salt spray! 👍👍👍
I love these videos. They’re so relaxing. I have pretty severe anxiety issues, and you’re videos really help. I appreciate you’re content. Thank you! ❤
A crinoid is ribbed and usually has a star shape or lines outward on its thin section. I think that's a different species of belemnite from the others you found. The bone-like fragment looks like the "beef" stone that is commonly found around there. Fingers crossed for ichtyosaur bone though!
Like the Bob Ross of rocks 😂❤
Bob Rocks...?
I'm always so impressed with your ability to find similar pieces of glass work/pottery to overlay your finds onto, it's an excellent visual and I have no idea how you manage it. Looked like a lovely day out, nothing like rainy day soup or stew. :)
That piece of white pottery with the hole in it is the top of an inkwell from the old fashioned school desks. There were probably millions of those in landfills all over the UK, and the British Empire.
The pottery object with the hole may have been the top of on inkwell. Great video as always mate enjoyed the walk
Thank you for taking us along on your adventures. For me, and many watchers, this is very therapeutic, especially today ❤
Maybe build a little wall for a herb patch or something and put the mosaic pieces as decoration?
I enjoy the “searching for things” (like sea glass, berries, or pottery) videos a lot, especially with Jenny along. I live in a city along the Missouri River, which is probably a good spot to have similar outings, but we haven’t had _consistently_ nice weather yet. Yesterday it snowed and last week 50-60 degrees (f) out. I’m not at all built for being out in cold or damp weather long (much like Eva). So, I appreciate being able to live vicariously through you for a bit! Thank you for sharing your work and time with us, as always :)
I’d pick up so much stuff the excess baggage costs to bring it back to Australia would be astronomical. hoarder rock-nerd fossil-nerd scavenger wistful Pom, me.
Thanks for the walk Mike and Jenny. My gran would have said it was the type of weather to blow your cobwebs away. :)
So nice of Jenny to bring you along while she finds all these treasures :)
My local beach (Tangitu Bay, Northland NZ) in NZ has had some blue pottery shards and a clay pipe stem….its about 3 km from Marsden Cross- the site of the first European settlement in NZ….Rev. Samuel Marsden.
Wonderful really. Nothing better than a gray windy day.
I live by the rugged S Wales Coast of Gower, and walking along the beaches on a day like that is really enjoyable and invigorating, especially when retreating afterwards to a warm coffee shop for a cuppa and slice of cake, and watching the sea crash and foam on the rocks.
9:08 fossilised button mushroom 😄
I would have taken that one home!
Man you're reminding me I need to explore my local beaches more! The Jurassic coast is amazing. I took a buddy down to Lyme after we saw your video and we picked up some amazing little treasures from the collapsed rubbish dump so thank you for your videos!!
I'm over here yelling to my phone oh there thre there! To the left! Go over there! 😂
..I'm starting to realize that it is actually a good thing that I'm far from the beach 🤩😂 you guys spark my joy for rocks again!
Maybe it's my Scottish blood, but that looks AMAZING, the bluster, the damp, and slight wisps of fog, just beautiful. I'd be happy just by myself roaming that beach, but the fact that you have Jenny sharing the day with you is the greatest gift of all, everything is better with a staunch companion by your side and Jenny is a gem.
Drizzle, lovely drizzle!
Gemny, if you will.
I love that kind of weather, where its still bright enough to see where you're going but the surf blows in your face, a pleasant feeling when you're wrapped up warm with just your face exposed to the elements. The air is full of negative ions, so refreshing.
It's disturbing that people would find blustery weather "amazing." 🫨
That being said, I have a bit of Scottish blood in me (no, I didn't say a bit of Scotch in my blood), so, I can appreciate a blustery day as viewed from inside a nice, warm house. 😉
There is something different about being outside in this weather - on a lovely sunny day, you notice the beauty of nature; but on a day like this (or worse) you start to notice the power of nature, and how it's utterly indifferent to your comfort - and that's an interesting experience
I'm watching this on a cold rainy day in New England . I'm with Eva, I'm staying dry and warm😁
The Peachy Beach Teacher.
Timetraveller!
Something i think would be fascinating is once you have a collection of pottery shards big enough, attempting to rebuild a usable, if ornamental piece of complete pottery, perhaps with something similar to japanese kintsugi, it would be a LOT of work, but ive never seen a piece like that before (and i have looked) and i think it would be an interesting challenge to find pieces of similar curves to form a basic bowl
I do like this idea
Have you ever thought about going down the beach after dark with a UV lamp to see what you can find?
I did. Found some orange flourescing stone Local-ish to you, but no one can tell me what it is.
Every time you say bellamnites I hear Bedlamites and the visual of Mike collecting Bedlamites on the beach is really something
Thank you for the most lovely day at the beach! So appreciated! It reminds me of the beaches here in Oregon. It’s mostly blustery, cold, & rainy. It’s invigorating to get outside on the beach in that type of weather. Collecting rocks & pottery makes it even better!
Loved hunting for treasure with you and Jenny. The bowl of seafood stew capped my envy.
I love these videos. I have family in Dorset and I remember as a child I would go down there to visit every summer. It was the best times of my life and I spent a lot of times at many of the beaches and other places you have visited in your videos. I wonder, have you been to Poole as of late? I remember going there frequently many years ago and enjoying Poole pottery If that is still a thing. Making and painting your own pots was a cool way to spend a day. Anyway great videos and a big nostalgia hit for this guy !
Nostalgic feels and nose tingles ❤ Thank you both, much love! ❤❤😊
I have found between Charmouth and Seatown to be very productive for fossils 👍🏾
My parents are off on a well-deserved holiday to Whitby soon! You will never guess what the weather forecast says...
13:00 Nice Dorset rhoticity creeping in ... assimilation has begun, lol!
Thank you, Mr. Shrimp.
Talk about blowing the cobwebs out 🕸️🌧️💨Thanks Mike n Jenny 😊👍
Thanks to these videos I've started noticing little fossils sometimes. Was so happy when I found my first tiny little ammonite.
If I lived anywhere near the coast, I would do this every day :D
I believe I might very well have hoiked the stone you found at 8:10 off the beach, or at least one very similar. It was my first time fossil hunting at Charmouth and got carried away 😂
I'd have grabbed it, too. It just looks really cool. 😅
I was wondering if there was any use in trying to industrially recycle seaglass. It seems there is so much of it that hoarding it for its aesthetic value might be a bit much at some point
The sea glass would look fab stuck on a plain picture, mirror or photo frame, especially the green kind.
No way you left the pyrite mushroom behind 😅 Nice video
I found an amazing peice of fossil wood at Charmouth. I was even brwn coloured with lines in it. Only the third stone I broke open.
I like the pyrite nodules! In California, I've only seen pyrite as a slightly brassy colored glitter, sparkling in sand. It's often called "fool's gold." Inexperienced miners during the California gold rush would get excited when they first saw it in their gold pans. The nodules are very cool! I wonder what they look like inside.
Yes, I had a small bottle full of Iron pyrite when I was a teen. Lost in the house somewhere now 😂
@@no-oneinparticular7264 That happens. 😄
Cool video, I've always wondered about beach glass origins.
It's always fun to collect it.
There's nothing better than laying on the couch and listening to your soothing voice while the weather here in Austria is every bit as rotten as the weather in the video, with the wind howling and rain on the windows. ❤
I used to love walking the beach in California on cold,gray winter days(yes,they have winter there).The beach would be empty of people and the Pacific would be showing it's restless beauty.The commonest glass there was the green and clear mostly from sodas and lots and lots of amber glass from beer bottles.Rocks had alot of colors including alot with speckles.I think reddish rocks were more common than in your haul,probably because Southern California is basically the Mojave Desert being uplifted then falling into the sea from erosion and earthquakes.Away from the sea and not up in the Sierras, SoCal looks alot like the Mojave.
Stormy weather is yummy to be in, especially on a beach like this.
Well done!!!!!
the piece you're holding at 14:42 actually IS a piece of belemnite, it's just the base of it without the tip.
Crinoids at Lyme and Charmouth are always star-shaped and have little lines on its surface denoting each segment.
At 16:27 you're holding a piece of the beef member. It's either that or a piece of rib.
Thank you for all that you and Jenny do for our entertainment! This was very interesting.
Every time you film yourself walking on rocky or pebbly shores, I get sympathetic ankle pains as I imagine you turning one.
I usually watch these videos on one of my laptops or my mobile so I wasn't really aware of the very good quality. Seeing this on my main computer on a big screen made me realise how good the resolution is. Good job. Maybe Mr Shrimp changed equipement in the meantime and I just haven't noticed because it's been a long long while since I watched youtube on the big screen.👍👍
This is perfect weather in my opinion
Charmouth is my favourite beach in the UK. We have found a huge number of amazing fossils. There was a Victorian dump in the area so there is a lot to find. We travel there at least 3 or 4 times per year from the Midlands
Excellent :-) thankyou
Not a stereotypical beautiful day, but definitely a beautiful day. I'd have gone home with a lot more, great restraint on your and Jennie's parts. Thanks Mike!
'Fool's gold' perhaps in itself, but remember that gold rides an iron horse.
The pottery at about 24:30 I think was an old ceramic water bottle filler spout. You would have a cork that would stopper it.
your so lucky having all this stuff within reach, I'm a poor londoner who can't drive so the nearest I get to anything is a walk along the stinky canal or Thames
Mudlarking on the Thames foreshore in London is popular with a lot of people. Myself, I'd love to try magnet fishing in rivers or canals just to see what I can find 😂
@@no-oneinparticular7264 need a license for that and the thames foreshore stinks its full of rubbish and that liver disease spread by rats vials or wials or something I can't remember.
@@GreatSageSunWukongcrikey, I didn't know any of that. I've been watching a Nichola white mudlarking CZcams channel and she never mentioned any of that. Thank you for the info. Maybe magnet fishing in a river or canal is a good idea for me or you then 😂
you should make a sort of stained glass window out of the seaglass
I hope Jenny is wearing heavy boots as she may get blown away , she seems such a tiny thing.
I actually think Jenny is likely just normal size, but we are so used to seeing much bigger people now that she comes across as small. It will only get worse with the obesity crisis here in the UK....closely following in the USA's footsteps.
Lovely trip out! Thanks Mike and Jenny. Please give Eva a tummy rub from me❤
Mike, several times in this video when you were commenting on an apparent lack of fossils I noticed that by your feet there were mainly large rocks with visible fossil oyster shells in advanced stages of erosion in sight, including at least one example that was possibly small enough to collect for extraction. It maybe that you were discounting this type of fossil due to the obvious damaged condition of the available samples or because you already have examples of the same type in your collection but as a now land locked lubber I normally only notice this type on occasions when I have been out caving in my native Yorkshire.
More likely I just didn't notice them - the camera isn't always representing where my eyes are pointing (and also I was sort of tuned in to the idea of finding ammonites and belmnites)
Watch out for the Devils Toenails.
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If you had a rock hammer, there’s a fine looking crack able specimen at 7:20seconds 😢😂
Your pyrite nodule with the button shape looked like a tektite to me.
Awesome jackets those eh, got the same one I believe, in black with the removable inner fleece, recommend their touchscreen gloves or if your into it get a rucksack, shoes and the t-shirt like me, not sure why the t-shirt but I like it 😄
I prefer to walk the other direction where the clays are more exposed! Though heading to Lyme Regis the rock pool bit halfway between is particularly good for those pyrite ammonites 💪🏻
Love you shrimp ❤
Shrimp could you do a video on the seafood stew or a recipe please
As it looks super tasty
When I thought someone was flying a kite at the beach but realize it was a tiny piece of chocolate from the bar I was eating. lol still here though.
It would be good if you got a saw to cut rocks open to see what they are like inside.
Ahhhhh that’s more like it ❤
You are right about wearing proper clothing. I lived in England in the 80s. I bought a Mac and an umbrella, life was great.
Bleh, sad to see how polluted that beach is, but good that you are helping remove some of the trash.
i thought belemnite was some kind of urchin like crature until i googled it, surprised they were proto squids and the tooth like bone was the internal "spine"
Cool
When you’re doing your adventures or projects do you catch yourself narrating?
Yeah, I mean I think I've always had an inner monologue, but now it's more like an inner narrator
OH WOW, u missed a nice bellumnite at 12:39 left side.👍👍👍
Mike with all the sea glass are you going to make another lamp shade? Maybe something else?
Could the pottery piece be the top of a pie funnel? Especially given the age of the dump.
Could you explain what sea glass is and where it comes from?
Pieces of broken glass (usually discarded bottles) that have been worn smooth by tumbling in the surf with rocks and sand
Interesting ❤
that piece of round pottery could be the top of an ink well
It seems a bit fine for that, but maybe it was a really posh one. There is a sort of 'funnel' shape around the hole so that does suggest this could have been for filling a vessel such as an inkwell or salt shaker.
11:13 that's fools shark tooth
Those pyrite nodules are often coprolite of pyritised poop 😅
Do you ever go to sandy beaches and find anything? I'm in North Wales and only ever found 2 pieces of clear sea glass lol No fossils or anything like that, just beach pebbles washed up in the tide.
The long stretches of white sand where I live are nice, but there's not much to find.
I don't often go to sandy beaches, for that general reason
I'm not sure if I'm right in saying but is this hobby called mudlarking?
I think so, Altho that might be on river banks
@@JackFrost008 interesting
Yes, it is mudlarking. A lot of people do it at the seashore and on the Thames foreshore in London.
I'd say this is on the border between mudlarking and beachcombing - mudlarking does often involve actual mud
Nice haul!
Question, unrelated: do you and Jenny cycle? Have you tried out any e-bikes?
a bag of mixed nuts shaken in a jar, the large nuts rise to the top. just like what you see where you're at
sarcastic me wants to know what kind of clothing would help in a tornado :)
Are there any trilobite fossils in the UK? I have found one so far in the middle of the US, it's one of my favorites.
There are a few places they can be found (not very near me)
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4:26 that rock just right of center screen, is it just me or does it look like a sculpted head
With an ear, mouth, nose, and everything
I would think that, just maybe, that Jenny would also like to be tucked up warm with Eva!! Just maybe.....
Have you considered a metal detector as well?
How do you know when the tide will come back? I would be scared that I would drown.
Tides are very predictable as they are governed largely by the gravitational influences of the sun and moon. I have an app that gives me reliable tide predictions for any selected area
People can just freely chip into the cliff?
They are not supposed to dig at the cliffs