Good for you for not speaking in extremes. What you say is all the more believable and you're a pleasure to listen to. I love, love, love hearing the sea lapping at the shoreline, while learning about what you've come to understand and know. I'll look forward to watching more of your videos! Thank you!
If you're cousins know their fishing ,I don't doubt them at all, Great White populations are expanding, I can easily see one cruising tru, but not staying, unless it smells a new food source
Love your vids. I have a place on the North Wexford coast and I've always fully believe Great Whites pass through Irish and UK waters. No reason for them not to.
Terrible news Gavin. It’s been a long time since I talked to Sam, but I have good memories of Sam from our school days based in Newcastle. He was a very smart and gentle guy. Thoughts with your family at this time
Good video, Sam, to have someone speak on subjects like this before the knowledge and cultural tradition are lost , Jack Hargreaves had a program on TV called "out of town," twas always fascinating.
Excellent video! I once heard that they say it's unlucky to have hawthorn blooms in the house because their scent is the same as the one often detected (falsely) by people dying of the Black Death. No idea how true any of this is.
I speak about hawthorn, blackthorn and mention brambles (blackberries) with regards to thorns. Hawthorn is known as white thorn, and blackthorn is the related tree which produces sloes. Is that what you mean?
@sam2cents sorry. I missed your broad pronunciation here in England. My mayflower have been out all May. I'm heading off to southern Trent Valley in ten days where, for some reason, they come out at the end of May. Guess I'm a big fan. I wonder if the eating of the sloes and berries ever resulted in trees? I reckon it would work for yews, because they have strong seeds. Thanks for the interesting history. I'm sure you won't be changing your brogue.
@@ppetal1It's nice to know I have a brogue, as too often people think I'm some sort of an American rather than Irish. I have yet to meet a person who does not possess an accent. For myself, I love to hear different ones. I suspect the eating of sloes and haws did result in trees, as many in meadows and bogs are considered "fairy trees" and some grow in small tight groups with roots enmeshed. However, most bog bodies are only found after trees have been cleared, and nobody so far seems to have gone searching for evidence of a body at the literal root of such trees. It's an exciting prospect. But then we are still left with the question, why? Thanks for your comments. Best of luck on your trip.
Whale sharks are definitely not known from our waters. The problem with an albino basking shark is that it would be unlikely to be attracted by the fish guts, otherwise I wouldn't discount it.
Great whites are definitely in britain and surrounding waters its cold but not tht cold for them, they are warm blooded and like colder water to regulate their temp ,so id be carefull in any water near ir aeound uk,if theres water theres a chance a sharks there they live in water remember
This is similar to the Port Stephens sighting, off Australia, in 1918, which people attribute to basking sharks, etc. I agree, seasoned fishermen can distinguish between breeds of shark! 😂 Don't forget, scientists refused to even believe in the existence of rogue waves, until only the last few years. I personally think there's a strong possibility that there is some kind of sun species of huge white shark out there... 👍
Thank you Chris! It's a big enough planet and the oceans are vast, although modern jet travel makes people forget that fact. And we've barely explored it.
I videoed some tadpoles yesterday, and saw something sort of tadpole sized zipping incredibly fast and shooting off at different angles and seemingly going from the surface to underwater. I thought it was possibly water boatmen but didn’t know that they could move so fast, it was much much faster than the tadpoles, so fast in fact that you can barely make them out in what I videoed. Is it likely to be water boatmen?
It could be a water boatman, as they can be very fast when they want to be, but it might be a whirligig beetle or one of the aquatic beetle species, all of which are very fast.
@@sam2cents I looked up that whirlgig beetle and funnily enough saw a video where I saw a similar thing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NNQMtdiUSss.htmlsi=YwaY8p6vdGyq_Bn2 it's between 0:16 and 0:20 you see something zipping really fast under the water. Can't tell if they are small fish or an insect. but it's pretty much identical to what I saw.
I have this book to . Got it as a Christmas present from my late mother back when it first came out . She also wrote a little Christmas message . So it's close to my heart and will never part with it .
That's a lovely story. Thanks for telling it. Definitely never part with your book. Sometimes it's as though good thoughts and feelings live in the book itself as it travels along.
I saw exactly the same thing today ,two rooks took turns in fighting with a kite,I think the kites steal eggs from the rooks nest so they chase them away
I'm really glad you enjoyed your visit. Funnily enough, gigantic six-gill sharks are often caught in the sea below the Cliffs of Moher, with reports of one 25 ft long having been caught, photographed and released. Here's a link: www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39845225
