What I Found Was My New Favourite Orkney Island. Join Me On A Memorable Trip To Sanday...
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- A mysterious shipwreck washed ashore in a storm and it made national news, so when I read about it I just HAD to go for a look. It wasn't the easiest place to get to but boy was I glad I made the trip. Come along with me on a journey of discovery to the Orkney Islands in Scotland...
Filmed on Thu/Fri 22nd/23rd February 2024
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I was born in Glasgow but have lived in Carnoustie, Dalgety Bay, Stonehaven, Edinburgh, Montrose, and further afield (Salamanca, Spain & Devonport, New Zealand)
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This is a result of doing all this myself I’m afraid. Editing takes time and I also like to schedule videos a bit in advance in case of any problems/illness/cancellations etc. Keeping my uploads appearing every Saturday morning is important to me, so I don’t want anything to get in the way of it. Also, I occasionally need some time off to recover from trips!
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The usual suspects I'm afraid - time and money! Hotels especially these days make my eyes water like a true Scotsman. Also my weekly upload schedule means I need to keep on the move.
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Alicja will feature whenever possible, but she has her own life and a proper job so it can take a while for our schedules to match up. Trust me though, I prefer it when She is there too!
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Scottish tourism should be in on these trips. You present Scotland so well, the friendly North and Islands, definitely a life time of exploring available.
Hey thanks so much!
Absolutely spot-on David Wilson - I certainly agree with your sentiments... 👋
@@steve-marshIs faroe island part of UK can you travel there without passport or has stupid Denmark took over the island
@@JayJourneys_1 I don't believe the Faroe Islands have ever been a part of the UK. British forces occupied them during the war but didn't govern. The Islands are self-governing, under the sovereignty of Denmark.
Find it hard sometimes followin him on the maps them islands .can b hard work .great though
Someone lending you their car is taking Scottish Hospitality to next level! Fair play to him!
Fantastic vid, Steve. Sanday looked incredible!
Absolute legend!
Thank you Gary for making part of this possible!
Another great video! Your passion for discovering new places around Scotland really shines through.
I live on Sanday ,think I might have seen you filming the Burnt Mound info board . Glad you got to see the shipwreck and other sights . And Good of Gary to lend you his car , most folks here are happy to help .
I use to live on sanday at blossom
GARY is the man!! What a kind gesture to make your time on the island so easy. Love that big kitty too.
As the use of Gary's car enabled you to show us so many extra views I would like to thank him as well. The wreckage was fascinating to see. Just imagine the work entailed in fixing all those planks to the hull with treenails. Thank you for another great video.
Honestly without that car I'd have been struggling!
Gary is a champion ,thanks for another great video Steve.Am headed home to Scotland in June for afew weeks after 40 years away!!!
Canny wait❤
Brilliant vlog as ever,brought back lots of great memories of Sanday from our visit last year,fell in love with the place and was so happy to see all the places we visited, there is so much more to see and explore, lovely island lovely people, thanks for sharing your experiences.
Outstanding Steve lad, what a superb video. Thanks for bringing us along, and thanks to my single r namesake for the car loan!
@@Colin32269 wow! 40 years . . . Mind you my cousin emigrated with his family, (age 3 yrs) in 1969 to NZ and is coming back for the first time next month!
A different world up there Steve, no pressures or stress and people like "just take my car" Gary...
Wonderfull last minute choice of a trip...more please.!!!!
So true mate!
@@steve-marshsinclair= St Clair= merovingians(?)= bloodlines to the raphiem,Sinclairs are a separate human species .info from Gary wayne genesis 6 conspiracy.
That was brilliant. The islands really are magical.
Gary's my new hero.
And the clouds mate ... like a Turner painting.
Thank goodness there are still the 'Gary's' of this world around. So nice of him. What a lovely video with a rainbow🌈 & a beautiful random pussycat😺 & your perseverance paying off to find the wreck in the end! Love your Scotland videos 🏔⛰especially the Island 🏝adventures! Sanday looks wonderful. x J x
GARY YOU LEGEND ❤🎉
What a great trip! It was worth the effort to be able to touch that historic piece of wood. I hope it is preserved and researched. Gary is a hero for helping out, thanks to both of you.
What a Journey! And here I am, Orcadian and proud, an 85 minute ferry away, and I have not yet gone to see it. To my knowlege the plan is for it to be brought up from the shore and preserved then put in the heritage centre. The beach it washed up on is called Tresness, regarded as one of Orkney's finest beaches, which is saying something! A lifetime of exploration would be an understatement for Orkney, and I look forward to the next time you make the trip, as there are many more islands to be explored, no pressure of course!
I hope they do preserve it. Imagine a ship from 400-500 years ago! Amazing.
Hey, Orcadian, do you have any more idea what that remnant was? Part of deck or side of boat? I hadn’t heard anything about it in the States but it is exciting.
Not much is known yet I'm afraid, but it's thought to be the hull of an English-built ship, possibly from as far back as the 1700s. We have some archaeologists coming up from England soon who will hopefully be able to give us more answers.
@@aiden3170 That's really exciting. I'm hoping to read more about it as they investigate. I'll be trying to follow up on it. Love history. Thank you for responding.
What a way to start the day,watching one of your vids.. thanks Steve
Have a great weekend!
Big respect to Gary 👍🏻 what a lovely gesture 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Shout out to Gary from Sanday. You are a legend! Sanday looks like paradise in the winter sunshine.
Aww that orange cat!
I love these Scottish places with old Norse names. You can really tell the viking influence on the language. As a Norwegian they make sense to me. Like the island Sandøy. Øy is "island" in Norwegian. 😀
Ahhh thank you for this awesome wee fact!
@@steve-marshIt is the same for your pronunciation of "house" as "hoos". In Norwegian it is "hus". So you sound just like us. 😉
And Sandoy in Faroese 😁
And toft. I'm from West Yorkshire where toft is both a suffix and affix . Off the top of my head I remember a mine called Toftshaw Pit. Over in Leeds there was the Burmantoft Pottery.
Many of the Islands of the Hebrides end with the suffix "ay", as in Mingulay, Vatersay etc. I believe that this is old Norse for Island from Viking times.
Man alive Steve, I so love watching your adventures!
Your face on the boat home with the dog barking made me laugh sooo much!
You are an absolute treasure.....
What a pleasure--thank you And thanks to Gary as well!
The windswept island was gorgeous. The rainbow was extra special. But when you ended up at the wooden wreck I was overjoyed for you! Thanks for sharing with this armchair traveler living in Dayton, Ohio.
I saw Gary's message about lending you his car... that was so so generous of him !!
I'm glad you found the timbers, rather special
I'm also impressed by Sanday, so many maps, picnic benches etc etc, well done Sanday
Yeah Sanday really is a gem of an island!
What a beautiful island give me a bacon butty and a flask of tea and i would enjoy sitting on oneof those beaches for a few hours.so peacefull.thank you Steve.⛴️
That's all you need :)
Another great video , Steve. Thanks to Gary for Steve's transport. Greetings from Australia.
Cheers Richard mate!
Beautiful island. Lovely guy Gary to lend you his car. Fascinating shipwreck. Another 10/10 vlog and possibly your best ever.
Hey thanks so much! It was a very last-minute dash but so glad I did it
I was thinking the same - one of his best videos 😉☺️
Of all the videos you do, the ones around scotland are my favourite by far. Such a beautiful country and your passion for it shines through
Hey thanks so much!
So glad you found the wreckage of the old ship! And God bless Gary for the use of his car! That's the northern isles for you.
A big thumbs up for Gary from another Gary 👍
Another great video Steve 👏
Garys are good lads!
@@steve-marsh Totally agree 🤗👍
Your videos make my Saturdays! You cram so much into a day; all with the glee of a child! What a lovely day and all made possible by Gary's car. Legend, Gary.
Thanks for another entertaining and educational journey.
I loved that old section of hull. There's a special feeling attached to touching something so old. In fact, touch alone can be special. I remember feeling a huge compulsion to touch the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
Lovely video, as always, Steve. And a huge round of applause to Gary for lending you his car.
I am exactly the same!
Steve...Liverpool Kev here again...What a wonderful experience for us to enjoy...what on earth makes you think of such things?...really....really wonderful Steve...thank you so much....as usual...great to see you safely home after helping us enjoy such special experiences..( always love the ferries haha)....Liverpool Kev
All Alicja's fault - she's got me into checking the news every morning for inspiration :)
Said it before, Steve, you always go the extra mile(in this Sanday trip, MILES!). What a fantastic island. Plus, not forgetting, Gary, (thanks), for loaning you his car. Never been to Orkney or Shetland, so thanks for sharing this great vlog! Not the 1st time, I've forgotten to take the toothpaste! Also impressed you were able to devour that massive fish and chips! Nice one Steve! 😊 👍
What an absolute legend Gary is!
Im sitting here watching the video at 8 a.m. march 2nd. Been snowing here for 2 days and will continue for a couple more days. Will end up with about 20 cm. Thanks for starting my day with a smile.
Same here, been snowing for a few hrs and may reach 1mm but we'll make a big fuss about it. 😂😂😂😂
Brilliant video and such beautiful and incredible scenery
Glad to say that a local farmer used his tractor and fork lift to save the wreck. I believe it's at the museum for preservation.
Amazing piece of flotsam ! Such a wonderful scenic island as well, THX for sharing!
The first thing I do upon awakening on Saturday mornings is to look for a new video from you, Steve. (I'm six hours behind you.) Yet another great video -- you never disappoint. I especially appreciate how you look beyond the obvious. If only those timbers could talk... Aside from the shipwreck, I am thinking that the next greatest contributor to this video, Gary, by his generosity and modesty (apparently declining to appear on screen) is a great representative for the people of Sanday. Generous people, quiet and beautiful landscape, unused locks... what a wonderful place in which to live. Thanks, once again, for sharing.
Hey thanks so much!
Ah, so it's every Saturday? I will have to try to keep up with that. I was smiling the whole way through this
@@carrieboultby7516 I don't know if Steve has it written in stone, but he has been uploading videos on Saturdays for awhile. He's also posted a "bonus" video towards midweek on occasion, so you might want to keep your eyes open for those. If you can, you might want to subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so as not to miss anything.
What a brilliant video Steve, fantastic. Gary was a legend for the use of his car
Glad you enjoyed our little island .
Mate thanks so much for being the hero of the hour :) A very friendly island it is!
@@steve-marsh glad you found the wreck , you need to revisit for a couple of days when things are open 😂, great vid as always.
@@steve-marsh most of the wreck has been brought ashore and currently next to the heritage centre where I believe it is being viewed by experts shortly.
Haha YES! There are a few closed doors I need to get through one day :) Hopefully that cool car rental office will still be there when I return too :D @@garycrowther4912
What a star ✨
Thanks Gary..
Hopefully you raise loads of money for the RNLI with those Eggs 👍🙏
What a brilliant adventure Steve, thanks for sharing it with us.
Thankyou steve for this amazing video. HOW BEAUTIFUL IS SANDAY. and so enhanced by the quietness and isolation of not many folk around. It was breath takingly stunning. Thankyou to gary for his kindness and the ship wrecks were interesting. We have many beutiful areas to explore in the uk . I will never get to sanday but through your trip in my mind i have. by the way i am 66. Thank you steve once again
Thanks for coming with me on this trip and hopefully many more Vanessa!
Thanx Gary ❤
Morning Steve. Love your island trips! I’ve just booked a run to the Isles of Scilly in June - inspired by your video. And look at your follower count! 😲 It only seems 5 minutes since you hit 100K! 🤜🤛
So glad to hear it!
I will have to do this too.
A epic trip Steve. The cat looked adorable and I do hope they preserve the old shipwreck. Thanks Steve
I invited the cat to come with me, but he had stuff to do
@@steve-marsh 🤣
nice one, massive shoutout to Gary letting you use his car
Well said!
Oh fantastic Steve! That shipwreck is very VERY old! Hope you find the history! The island of Sanday is truly lovely! Thanks to Gary for a loan of the car enabling the viewers to see more of Sanday. And thank YOU so much for the wonderful video! Oh! And I nearly had a coughing fit at the look on your face when the dog was barking on the ferry! Hilarious! 😂😄😁🙋🏴🇮🇪🙏
My wife and I start every Saturday watching your travels. Look forward to it every week!
Thanks Gary👍
Thanks for the spirit to get up and go see it! Thanks to Gary!
Thank you for the great video Steve. As always when you take us with you on your travels, I was there, could almost smell the sea. Only you can make me forget everything around me watching your videos!
Oh Steve I REALLY enjoyed this one, back on home turf 😉 and yes I could have watched the whole journey in reverse back! Those WW2 old abandoned pill boxes give me the proper creeps too I can't go in them. I'll never get bored with your island trips, please do more! That poor wee dog barking on your jourmey back 😵💫 but ideal with the cabin, I'll be doing that when I eventually get there. This is added to my faves, love the 1600s ship wreck 😍 What a star of Gary! Thank you x
Another superb video, and a nice return from eastern Europe - thank you Steve.
A most enjoyable "escapade", Steve. Stunning landscape pictures - to be treasured not least because exactly how often can that scenery be viewed with such beautifully clear, blue skies.
Thank to Gary❤What a great find that beautiful shepwreck😍😍Have a nice sleep at home Steve😊❤
Another great one and thanks Gary !
I only discovered this channel yesterday and have throughly enjoyed watching your vlogs and adventures. I’m Australian but of British and Scottish heritage so these are just wonderful to watch, and for some very strange reason, they stir something in my soul but I have never been there in my life. I now cannot get enough of these outer Scottish islands as it feels oddly familiar but also not familiar at the same time. Maybe I lived there in another lifetime, who knows. Just wonderful and so different from Australia. Thank you very much for showing these for those of us who are so far away but are fascinated by these stunning islands. Ps Gary is an absolute legend for lending you his car. I would lend you mine if you are ever in Castlemaine, Victoria. What a good bloke!
Beautiful beaches lovley winter sun great views shipwrecks yea brilliant stuff steve cheers thanks have a great Sunday/ week
Great wee adventure and a big 👍 to Gary's wheels
I foolishly voted for more snow on your recent poll. This video was absolutely brilliant.
The beaches, the cloud formations, the rainbows, the hospitality of the people, the ferry journeys! All of it makes me want to go!
Sorry for making you wait for more snow :D
No apology necessary. I have to be protected from myself sometimes. 😂
Just loving the videos
Good morning Steve…a beautiful journey. Finding and exploring history is awesome..so happy you found what you were looking for. The cat was very healthy and precious 😊. Thank you Gary and that was very nice. Thank you Steve 🤗❤️…oh I forgot the rainbow was beautiful ❤
Kettletoft Harbour - don't you just admire the way all these small harbours are so beautifully constructed with dressed stone blocks? Good man, Gary, for lending you his car to let you (and us) see so much more of Sanday than expected. The wreck of the wooden hull gave me goosebumps, just to imagine it's history. Happy you had the comfort of a bunk on the return journey!
Yeah without Gary's help, I doubt I'd have made it to many of these places :)
SALUDOS y Muchas gracias desde San Diego California, USA…🤩
Excellent video. It is amazing how kind and generous the islanders are. Glad to see that all your efforts and persistence paid off and that you saw the wrecks.
Now that was certainly quite the adventure! Isn't it amazing how people can be so kind...kindness goes a long way in the world for sure! Such a great discovery with the wreckage! Not sure if this is the same one that has been on the news here in Nova Scotia, Canada or not, but it seems there were going to be efforts made in salvaging it? Pretty amazing history there!
Wow Steve, now those skies and seas were something out of this world weren't they? I do hope and pray I can retrace your steps on this one (and many others). And thank you for letting is see a rare and fleeting jewel from our past, quite compelling to imagine the story and people behind it, the world owes you one of for that.
Also big thanks to Gary, and also to you for not bypassing the airport, we old buzzards who can no longer afford fuel, much less wings to put it in much appreciate the look at every one we can.
Thanks mate!
A classic Steve Marsh video! Great to see the shipwreck and to hear your classic comment: “there’s so much to do on this island” as you face locked door after locked door. Wonderful stuff.
This way Steve finished the trip with a heavier wallet!
Glad you got a bunk on the way home!
Thanks for a fantastic tour. Fabulous beach, even better for the shipwrecks, and just beautiful all round. I loved the rainbow in Kettletoft harbour, that lovely cat in Kirkwall, and yes, lots of it. Thanks to Gary, too.
WOW, Steve, that was fantastic. You are such a trooper, walking through the water and over the stones to show us a very cool wreck. I loved this. So well done as always. Hope you don't catch a cold from the wet feet. Well done. And a big thanks to Gary.
I actually did!!!! :(
Ah Steve you make me want to visit Scotland all over again...observing you observing that shipwreck you looked like a little boy in a candy store. You always manage to impress me with each episode of your journeys. Take care and dry those feet. 👣
Another great and exciting video. Can’t wait to see your next adventure.
A huge thank you, to you and Gary. What an amazingly beautiful journey. Appreciate it must have been tiring for you,but again thanks for showing us . Have just read the Islanders of Sanday are trying to get interest in saving this piece of shipping history, hope they are successful, it could be as important as the Mary Rose.
I’m so glad you found the shipwreck. I live in Phoenix, Az but had read about it and was very curious to get your eyewitness view. Thanks for your perseverance, thanks to Gary, and thanks to the lady who helped. It takes a village. ♥
Thank you for taking us on a tour of the Orkney-pelago. You are the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
So interesting great one Steve and very special thanks to Gary what a generous guy. Cheers.
Thanks Steve for an exciting video! Beautiful views! Spring has apparently also come to Scotland! 😃👍Greetings from Finnland.
Just love the Scottish accent... and it's so fun to read all the Norse names in Lerwick, now when I'm "google visit" the city. What a beauty! Just the end name of the city "wick" is "vik" in Norwegian, meaning "bay" in English I think. We have many places that end-named vik here in Norway. And then we know what kind of "bay" the place has. Sanday (Sandøy) Sand Island. Guess it's a sandy island.
Would love to visit the island and of course main land of Scottland as well. Keep up the good job Steve👍
Loved that steve! Just added that to my list!! The people who live on the islands are fantastic!!
Interesting part of the world. It still amazes me how people live differently lives.
This reminded me a bit of small places in Norway.
Gary!! Legend. And what a beautiful island.
Steve:
Brilliant video and trek! Thank you so much. Although I've been to Orkney several times, and explored several islands - weather affected my attempt to reach Sanday, so, at the moment, it is unexplored for me. Your fine travelogue has spurred me once again to get back and experience it for myself. Many folks tend to overlook what Orkney contains, but you've showed a lot of that history in this adventure - from sparkling seas, to wind, rain, thousands year old sites, crofts, WW relics, the list goes on and on - and the great and friendly residents. There's always something in every direction and reachable by the many ferries and short flights. Congrats on finding the ship at the end of the rainbow! Thanks again and safe travels.
So glad you had a good trip, you've done the island proud. Hope you will come back for longer next time. The croft was open, no one lives there just the ghosts of the past!
Just one word, brilliant. Thanks❤🙃
Thanks for the video Steve
What a beautiful island Sanday is. It shows you that these locations still exist, free from the vigor's of everyday life here in the UK or should I say Scotland! Great video Steve - more please.
Steve! I have wanted to see Sanday for SO long! Thank you for going and showing me it’s as amazing as I thought it would be.
The ship wrecks were fantastic, Thank you Gary for making it possible.
Bloody brilliant!
Honestly this island is incredible, and the friendly people there make all the difference
Hi Steve. So glad you did get to see the shipwreck. Quite some feat to make such a journey. Thank you for taking us along with you. 👏👏👍😀
What a wonderful adventure, Steve! I'm so glad you didn't have to walk, or bike, or ride a mule all that distance! The old boats were super cool, but the icing on the cake was the rainbow, God's promise. Blessings to you and Alicja!
Delighted you found the ship wreck. Brilliant. 👍😊
Mate I was getting worried for a while I'd never see it!
I enjoyed every minute of this video, Steve. My son, Ward owns a tiny piece of land on Sandy. Enough to call him, Laird. I am sending this to him as soon I am done writing this. I love the time spent watching the waves and hearing the gulls. Thank you Gary for the use of your car, thank you Steve for this amazing video. Merry Ann from Minnesota!
Thanks for sharing with the Laird of Sanday!
In my footsteps again !!!! 30 years ago I took my family to Sanday on bicycles, daughter in trailer. Wonderful place. All those tourist facilities werent there then but tgose beaches were. Bl…y cold though, even in summer.
Aye the island itself won't have changed much at all!
Steve's quest for the Holy Grail of discarded wood from centuries past was pretty epic. The dog walker strolling by looked equally excited too. Well done! Surely they'll drag the wood ashore and make a picnic table out of it.
I hear it has started to break up :(
I do love all your vids Steve of course 😂 but I really like the Scottish vids the wild winter weather vids, scenery, the islands & ferry trips!! I am Irish but my gran was Scottish so have a real sentimental connection with Scotland
Thanks so much!
What a great adventure Steve. what a great place to explore. Thank you Steve for sharing. Cheers!
Great video. Thanks for your car Gary, you rock! Another beautiful part of the world.
I remember reading that very same news story, and as I did so, I immediately thought of you and just knew that you wouldn’t be able to resist making that trip to Sanday! I’m glad that you found what you were looking for, thanks to the lady you met. Thanks also to Gary. What a super nice gesture that was, and like you say, it tells you everything you need to know about the inhabitants of the island.
Thanks very much for taking me to Orkney.
Ever since I did a walking tour of the Hebrides it's been on my must-see places.
Loved the video
Such atmospheric views of skies and seas. How beautiful nature can be. Thanks for sharing despite the cold and - horrible - wet feet !
Well done Steve. Thank you Gary,