Fossil Hunting at Seatown (on Boxing Day) 

My favourite thing about this channel, and Mike and Jenny and Eva in particular, is that it doesn't feel like you're watching the life of a RU-vidr or content creator. It feels like you're just having a nice catch up with a friend. That's something priceless and not something I've found with any other RU-vidr I've watched. Should you ever see this comment, Mike, I'm so happy that your content has been able to provide you with a life you deserve, and not the 9-5 grind that was clearly very stressful for you. Your new home (from what we've been able to see, being mindful of your privacy!) is beautiful and perfectly suited to you and your family. Jenny, thank you for being so kind and understanding in the early days of this channel where it was no doubt quite weird that your husband was talking to a camera, or recording your evening meals! Your presence truly makes me smile and your positivity - even when presented with a questionable dish! - is infectious. And Eva... Rocks shouldn't be there if they're not for you to shout at! ❤ You are all so loved and your videos bring a smile to absolutely everybody who comes across them. I hope you continue for many years to come.

I wonder if Eva barks at rocks because she's imitating her dad? He picks them up, talks at them for a while, digs around near them, then does it again a few minutes later! Only joking, love your videos as always.

The town name skit was brilliant 👏

Seeing the river running through the rocks into the ocean was so magical, I'd never seen anything like that before living in Midwest America! I love the thought of young people being able to experience and appreciate these pieces of the natural world in real time through your videos in a way that I don't think ever comes across in any school classes. Just beautiful!

Long time lurker, first time commenter. Your videos are the best thing on RU-vid for me. I cannot tell you the joy I feel when I see you have uploaded. I love cooking, foraging, beach combing, making stuff and budget videos so much. I also love Eva. She’s hilarious.

Eva clearly is a pro in barking at rocks. The eagerness and expertise she puts into this really impresses me again and again! I highly appreciate the fact that you always take her to different beaches so frequently, and show us that, no matter the size, shape or consistency, all rocks can be barked at, with joy and efficiency. Thank you, Mr. Mike! And Eva: Keep up the good work! Leave no stone unbarked at, as always! 😉

It’s very nice of Jenny to bring you along so she can show you all her good finds,

I really enjoy & appreciate the videos where Mr Shrimp goes for a nice walk with Mrs Shrimp & Eva weather it's looking for fossils or foraging for mushrooms great stuff right up there with weird stuff in a can 😁

It's interesting that what you call "pigs in blankets" are small sausages wrapped in bacon. Here in my part of the US, a "pig in a blanket" is a small sausage wrapped in pastry. My mother used to make those for me and my sister, and so they hold quite a lot of nostalgic value for me, and hearing you mention them really made me smile even if they are slightly different. Although, all things considered, they aren't really that different, are they?

Seeing the landslip overnight at Seatown I was reminded of this video and the comment at 10:56 "I'm not sure it would ever be a good idea to clamber up these cliffs."

I always wondered how some towns and villages originally got there names, thank you for explaining it so succinctly 👍🤣

Love your videos Mike. You’ve moved to an area of Dorset I know very well and loving see you do this walks in a place I know very well. I grew up on Portland, my parents still live there. If you ever get the chance it’s well worth a visit, there is an amazing walk along the cliff side from the bottom of the isle which goes the full length of the island and ends at the iconic Portland Bill. Such an incredible walk. Portland is steeped with amazing things to look at, WW2 Bunkers, The Forbidden City (abandoned Victorian and more recently military base) the infamous Portland stone which is been used in many prestigious buildings and much more!

So awesome! I work at the Anchor Inn, so sad I missed you! 😂 Glad you enjoyed the beach :)

I used to go fossil hunting on charmouth beach with my dad, found a spine of something and what looked like a claw or a tooth! Really enjoying these new videos!!!

What beautiful stones! One could make a seriously wonderful mosaic with them. Thanks for the expedition Mr. Shrimp! 👍🇨🇦😊

Love your channel. You are highly skilled, entertaining, intelligent, kind, and such fun and a joy to watch. I have learned many things from you. Congrats to you and Jenny for the "new" home. The garden is fab. It will be awesome when you add your touches. Eva is a cutie pie, a fav or my dogs. LOL You might enjoy the channel Ardent Michelle. She does a lot of food challenges. Best wishes from Tennessee USA.

Another really nice video, Mike. Where I live, in Suffolk, we have no hard rock underlying - it's all clays - London, Boulder, and Gault, and sands, chalk, flint and gravels. There is a strata called 'Red Crag' which is comprised mainly of mollusc shells. It's exceptionally friable, which is why the sea eats it away so voraciously - and it's also very prone to frost shattering. You can find some nice sharks' teeth in it, but the most common remains round here, are Coprolites, which is fossilized excrement. Very high in phosphates, and was dug and processed for fertilizer, originally by a Mr Packard, who bought out a company called Fison, and who presumably got tremendously rich because of it. There is a road near the docks in Ipswich called 'Coprolite Street', which, until fairly recently, gave access to a row of beautiful Victorian warehouses, used by the Fisons company. They also had a large factory near the village of Bramford, on the edge of Ipswich. Sadly, both factory and warehouses have gone. The factory, quite 'unusually', burned down in 2019, as it had been grade II listed (your guarantee of building flammability), But bits of coprolite can still be found, even in my garden. Children, of course, are fascinated when you tell them what it is. And yes, some bigger pieces look uncomfortably 'fresh'. I believe Mary Anning found coprolites near Lyme Regis. My favourite fossils are the small, harpoon-like 'Graptolites', which can be occasionally found if you split slates along their bedding planes.

Crazy how beautiful the beach looked for Boxing Day!

Great video , really interesting! Jenny has a great eye for finding good fossils. Hope Eva got some leftover duck

Looks like you were in Broadchurch country! Love the narration, Eva's yips and the sea roar collaboration. Just perfect together.

thank you for these videos, i really liked your herbal identification videos but this is even better, i love looking through rocks and pebbles but i'm recovering from surgery and can't go outside (and don't have a beach anywhere near).

Thanks for taking us along on one of your walks again Mike. Great company, fabulous scenery and a natural history lesson in the process. And of course, a quick cutaway to the kitchen for some food content - because why not! Always so much to enjoy in your videos. I never realised Charmouth and Seatown were so close to Chesil Beach. I always think of Abbotsbury as near the starting point but forget it starts much further back. I'm sure you've already lined up some walks along Chesil Beach & Portland for future videos! Plenty to explore there. Happy new year to you and Jenny.

I'm so glad that you found a partner that has similar interests as you, much patience, and a willingness to just go with the crazy chaos of all your thoughts and tinkers. Lol. 😄😄😄 Jenny, I hope you have just as many oddities of thought and character as Mike, which I believe you do. I'm glad you have let us all come on this adventure with you both. ❤️❤️❤️ Oh, and Eva....keep up the good work!! Know that your guardians would protect you from large waves, deers, other dogs, and general calamity if needed, even to their own detriment....😸😸😸

I recall once i found an ammonite a bit bigger than my fist just lying on the shingle, it looked like something you'd see out of a giftshop and the backside of it was worn down so you could see all the chambers present within. Was very happy with that as it was our last walk on the beach before going home and I hadn't found anything that trip so far.

Thanks for the lovely video. Was that Eva that you were calling a cheeky monster for attempting to eat your boxing day sammies? 🤣🤣🤣 Eva said she needs a boxing day sammie. 🤣🤣🤣🥰

My last visit to Seatown was in 1980. I camped for a couple of nights in a field just a short walk from the beach. Apart from the erosion, it looks like it has hardly changed!

My little guy loved your dinosaur shirt. This was a fun little walk. Eva was having a great time digging around.

See now this is a channel worth its money, very entertaining and always has been 👍

Beautiful beach! When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse...no, wait. That's not it. When I wasa child., we found crinoid stems in the river rocks in Kansas. They were loose and mixed with bivalve fossils, usually from a limestone matrix. They would sometimes have a hole down the middle, they could be strung like a necklace and we called them 'indian beads'. Thank you for sharing your holiday outing on the beach. 👋

Seatown, just to the east of the highest point on the southern coast of England. Charmouth is the town just to the west. The highest point is called Golden Cap and is so called because the sandstone face shines like gold when the light strikes it... especially when it is sunset...!!! 😎😉👍

Imagine living in a country where you can even find the beach! There's too much snow here, and cold as well. Waves are nowhere to be seen, ice gets in the way... And still I'm warm inside my house because of the water. Tubes in the water, a thingy indoors that steals some of the "heat" from the water, and suddenly it's warm. I have absolutely no idea how it works, but I'm happy for it!

"Because if I throw it, it could go in the water, and it would turn into one of those stories where "Dog Owner Drowns Trying to Save Dog, Dog Escapes Unscathed"...." I share this sentiment or belief about the mechanics of the universe.

I am so jealous of your winters. I haven't seen dirt since Halloween. Your videos help keep me going!

Thank you for another delightful walk! The shiny segments in the biggest ammonite arc may be from the natural shell chambers that the organism used to maintain buoyancy + enhance shell strength, a la today’s chambered nautilus. Might show if cut in half? For pyrite decay - a coating of mineral oil or acrylic can slow or prevent access to O2 and oxidation.. including to sulfuric acid.. which has damaged many an adjacent specimen!

Another great walk. Thank you for taking us with you.

It's always a pleasure when dogs or cats come over to say hello.

Lovely video so far, but I did not finish watching it. You inspired to go outside and do a bit of rockhounding myself!

I never get over Eva being so easily entertained by rocks.

Lovely photography, beautiful scenery 😊👍

I had thought this was the nearby Seaton at first - a firm family favourite of mine. Still, I enjoyed seeing this beautiful part of the coast too

This reminds me of the word apricity: apricity English Noun The warmth of the Sun in winter. Etymology: From the Latin aprīcitās, noun of quality from aprīcus (“warmed by the sun”).

You'll want to keep these pyritised ones nice and dry. From what I recall anything east of Charmouth has really unstable pyrite. In a pinch a sealed box with a silica packet will do, but be sure to keep them away from moisture. Wouldn't want them to decay.

I can't wait to hopefully go on a beach this year for my holiday! You've inspired me to try looking for things like this! :)

A leisurely walk on that pea shingle would make a very soothing ASMR video. It has a sound quite distinct from gravel or cobblestones (someone else in the comments said the same for when you were brushing it with your hand). Edit- how are the beach pebbles such a distinct color from the cliffs where I'd have assumed they eroded from?

Nice shirt, Mr. Mike! 🦖🥰 I wonder what a "Weird-stuff-in-a-can"-themed shirt might look like?

Lovely relaxing video. And 'posting' the chestnuts into the sandwich was a chuckle point. Thank you for sharing.

Is it just me, or did Coastal Shrimp really get more digging in than Eva for the first time in a beach walk episode?

Oh wow, you really wore the perfect shirt for fossil hunting! I dig it!

What an amazing sight at 26:53! Water just springing out like out of nowhere.

This has been wonderful. Thanks for sharing Mike 😊

For those who had never previously heard of Belemnites, here's the wiki link: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belemnitida Great video, Fossil Shrimp! I learned about a new extinct phylogenetic order today!

love these types of videos

Props to Jenny for finding that marvelous ammonite specimen! Hope you all are having a marvelous 2023 so far!

Eva now realises that she's finally taught you the pleasure of digging. 😀

I came here for the pudding review and got my local beach 🏖️! Welcome. You might see us on Bridport market selling curries 👀🥂. Spice & Rice 🍚

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing. I'm from South Eastern New England and grew up around Cranberry bogs. I'm always amazed at how divisive the Cranberry can be. I grew up drinking unsweetened watered-down cranberry juice, and few people from other places around the USA understood it.

I needed to relax.Enjoyed this.

That little cartoon skit was pretty funny

Brilliant Dino shirt! Love it!

Very enjoyable video - loved seeing the different parts of the beach and watching Eva do her thing, lol.

As a Mary Anning fan, I love watching these fossil hunting videos. One day I hope to come visit this area!!

The scenery is beautiful. Looked like a great day for a walk.

this is so refreshing to watch ❤ Lovely day for a beach day! Cheers!!!

I think it was on a Tom Scott video, but there was a place where the land crumbling into the sea was a graveyard.

Thank you I really enjoyed this video, very done Mrs Atomic Kitten for that fossil find

Fish locker is a great one to watch for costal foraging x

These are just so calming and nice

Excellent dinosaur shirt Sir... and very interesting walk, thank you. Best Wishes, Brendan.

Your videos are the only thing keeping me sane, right now.

Adding the sliced chestnuts after making the sandwich is the purest definition of "Fixing it in post" :D

27:30 Man that is just a fantastic shirt, another Jenny creation? Great find on the fabric if so!

When I first visited Seatown that pub was tiny. But now due to a fairly recent TV drama being filmed at West Bay the whole area is overrun with tourism and retail outlets are massive.

Great place, I went fossil hunting at Charmouth beach a few years ago. Collected quite some nice fossils. I coated mine with some vaseline and after a few years they still look shine. You just have to prevent them from drying out.

Great sea Asmr

Boxing Day in Australia is beach cricket or for those inland, back yard cricket! 🏏🏏🏏

Enjoyable watch. Always enjoy your fossil hunting videos, since it's always fascinating to see what you're going to find. I would adore fossil hunting, but...not so much to be found in th desert where I live.

Do you find that you obsessively look at the ground and forget to take in the view? I do on my local beach, looking for sea glass. I have to remind myself to look up from time to time.

Quite enjoyed the ASMR beach rock sounds...

Your rolling hills are so pretty! One day, if I ever get back to England, I'll have to look you up and see if your Jenny will show me how to find fossils on the beach. My husband laughs when I park myself on a beach and sift through the pebbles.

I liked the skit halfway through because I thought when you first mentioned the name that they definitely came up with that at four on a Friday.

I am starting to think that Jenny finding the best fossil of the day is a running gag.

Ah, the leftovers. It always feels like making something for "free". We had a different kind of meal, and I was able to cook the leftovers into some nice tortilla wraps. Anyway, lovely video once again. Good finds, especially the big one and the shiny one 😎

Do you ever find any BIG fossils? Here in Tasmania at a similar beach, Errol Flynn's father discovered an entire whale fossil in the cliff.

Another delightful walk. Regards Eva and her barking, digging at rocks, is her behavior associated with her breed, or just her idea of fun? It doesn't matter I suppose if she's happy, just my curiosity. Thanks as ever for the content.

Piccalilli: authentic! Wonderful stuff.

I never heard of boxing day. So I looked it up. Learning a bit about english culture😀

Great beach walk, thanks

Very much similar to our Boxing day a few years back, we stayed in one of the National Trust Cottages just below Golden Cap.

Ooh, I see you had roast duck for Christmas too! That's the choice me and my mum made as well, with a sausage meat and apple stuffing it came out incredibly moist and delicious!

17:55 nearly had a tasty sandwich to herself lol

Nice video Mike, thanks!!

Lovely post, brings back so many good memories, Godt nytår from Denmark.

Jenny always finds the best bits ;-)

22.00/23.45 you missed the Tyrannosaurus skeleton to the left Mike.

Hey Atomic I’ve been watching you for a few years now and love your content I just wanted to congratulate you on how far you have come! You almost at 1m!

Really sunny day there. Great fossil hunting day for sure.

love crinoids, they are the most plentiful fossil in my area (missouri, usa) because it used to be a shallow sea. that always blows my mind since we are so landlocked

Can you please do mushroom foraging again, those were your best videos in my opinion, its so educational and i would like to learn more

That was a very interesting trip! Thanks!

hope u enjoyed our beach. My cottage over looks the sea and can hear the sea as i write this. Lots the fossils have gone via grockles ( holiday makers) lol Where u from ? Awwww i saw my place in ur video. If you can see portland clearly, it means its going to be rain the next day. I know it's prob an old wifes tale but it right.