LEFT ALONE ON WALNEY ISLAND | Barrow-in-Furness | THE LAKE DISTRICT FREE PARK UP Near the Irish Sea
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2022
- I get left all alone on a small island off the Cumbrian coast!
We leave Coniston Park Coppice CMC site and head to Meathop Fell CMC, via Barrow-in-Furness.
But due to Riki's terrible sense of direction, we walk the wrong way and I end up being abandoned on Walney Island whilst Riki hot foots it back to get the van.
We found a great free park up on the Cumbrian coast well away from other tourists. We had the beach almost to ourselves in peak season! The sun even made an appearance briefly.
Bathing suit on, I brave the waters of the Irish Sea all alone...
#walneyisland #barrowinfurness #lakedistrictuk
Mam was born on Walney,.Dad, Barrow Island.
Been going there all my life (70 years) and have a second home on Walney.
The friendliest people on the planet 🙂
It was such a beautiful unexpected find. You’re a proper local then!! Lovely place 😊
They are if you’re from there otherwise they look at you like you’re an alien
What a beautiful video! Thanks for portraying the town in such a positive light X
Thank you for the comment. We’ve been blown away by the amount of local people who have seen this vlog and we hope we did the area justice.
We definitely need to return and do a part 2 and check out all the recommendations we’ve had. 😊 x
You didn't go anywhere via barrow 😂 it's the world biggest cul-de-sac
Nice to see you visit my island and enjoy it.
Never been there , always wondered what’s up that way. Thanks for sharing Helen and Martin
It was great to stumble across a coastal spot that was so empty mid summer. I love an accidental find where you end up having a totally different day to the one you thought! 😊
Local here Piel island is worth a visit. Get the ferry over from row island. The ferry do seal watching trips as well. Like they're Facebook page for updates. Love how you've included the seagulls.😂😂😂
The seagulls make the seaside! And did you see how that one climbed over his friend on the railing!! Rudeness 😋
Oh we’d like to see the seals. Is that all year round?
@@TheHillsExplore There's a bird sanctuary as well over south end caravan site. The ferry is weather dependent. So if it's high winds torrential, rain or a storm expected they don't run.
I live on Walney Island ...best move of my life.
Missing Barrow-in-Furness and my home way back Walney...thank you for sharing this vlog❤🇬🇧❤
We get so many comments on this vlog still I rewatched it myself. 😄
We had such a lovely day there 😊
What a lovely place , 😀👏🚐😍
We didn’t expect a deserted beach next to such an industrial town! X
@@TheHillsExplore sometimes you just get lucky that way 😀👏🚐
@@TheHillsExplore You should have visited Roanhead beach all sand & dunes then over to Roa island and ferry to Piel, walk the castle eat at the pub & go seal watching
@@mikewilson438 we would love to do that next time Mike thank you for the tip 😊
Nice Vlog friends!
Love seeing a the beautiful sunshine and that coasta coffee looked delicious!loved the water views! Loved the outfit transition edit! Great filming
My old stomping ground. Born and raised on Barrow Island, served my engineering apprenticeship in the shipyard & spent much of my spare time buggering about in boats on Walney channel and Morecambe Bay…… happy times
It was such a lovely peaceful place 😊
@@TheHillsExplore if you’re ever up that way again, try getting over to Piel Island. A 12th century castle, an 18th century pub and a row of 8 ships pilot’s cottages (one of which is still within my family’s ownership) that were built in 1875…. It’s an idyllic place and somewhere else that I spent a large part of my childhood ❤️
Appreciate you both showing barrows nicer side, I usually see videos only showing the degrading parts of the town. Yous would have loved to have gone to the nature reserve and the very end of walney
We had not heard much about Barrow but really think Walney Island is a hidden gem. If we get to go back we will be exploring further as lots of locals have said we missed out on the nature reserve and other spots too.
Thank you for your comment 😊
@The Hills Explore I'll agree with you walney is definitely a hidden gem. There's 2 nature reserves. The one down near the light house is amazing, get to see the seal colony
@@emg9188 some seal spotting is on our bucket list. We will have to check the best time to see baby seals - From a respectful distance of course
Thank You for My Town of Barrow in Furness on the Map well done and Costa De Walney Isla
It was like a lovely calm spot in the midst of a hot and busy day. A great place to relax 😊
Great video - You were so close to a cafe and toilet when you stopped at Walney, the round house was just up the path
We loved it at Walney.
We had wondered about with no plan as usual 🙈typical to be so close but without a clue 😊
Next time!
Great Vlog such a lovely place. A costa is always a must.
It was a lovely find 😊
Riki and his coffee problem!! 🙈
Thanks for the reminder of lovely sunny days on this grey miserable January day. I saw your arm right up your back Riki on the way into Costa 🤣 Oh! That beach at Walney Island is lovely 🥰 Our dogs would love it. Looking forward to this year’s adventures. You know we love a good adventure ☀️🚍
Yes poor Riki 🙄😆 The beach was such a great find and perfect for doggies. 🐶🐶
I can’t wait to see the sunshine again this year and hope to bump in to you on our travels 😊
I followed your travel to Europe vlog to the letter to plan our trip last year ✅👌🏻
Cool vlog I'm from Barrow in furness looks like you guys had good fun in Barrow. Thank you for sharing keep up the good work
Thank you. Yes we did. 😊
Well done Riki, taking one for the team in Costa! 🤣 also very considerate to walk back alone to get the van. Beth looked very relaxed on your return 😆 lovely video
I have to give him credit for going alone. I’d only have slowed him down 😂 so it was for the best! I muddled through - all alone 😜
Glad you enjoyed Walney Island. Earnse Bay beach at the north end of the golf course is also great, and Biggar Bank, a little further south. The site of the Sandy Gap community centre was once the 'Beachcomber Cafe', a quite popular spot when I was growing up, and had a little 'crazy golf' area off the back. You actually walked past the house I grew up in on Central Drive, on your way to Sandy Gap.
So nice to see my home town in a positive light. Cheers. Great aerial shots and editing by the way.
Thank you for your comment and that’s lovely you saw your childhood home!
We had a great day and Walney Island was in unexpected find. We must go back again and see how the Sandy Gap community centre has come along.
So many people have pointed out other landmarks we missed. So next summer we need to go back!
really enjoyed your vlog...all the very best guy's
Thank you very much Martin 😊 and to you
I drove that road in August. It was very tight in a T6, kudos to you.
Beach looked lovely. Be nice to see the sun again. We're booked on meathop fell in March. Take care. X
Yes definitely a good place to check out away from the crowds.
Meathop Fell was a great little site. The sign lit up like a beacon at night 😄 Have a lovely time x
Am looking on going there next week thanks looks great
Paul have a lovely time. It’s really peaceful there. A little gem of a find 😊
If you can remember the old Chewits advert with the monster that had the tag line 'Chewier than Barrow-in-Furness bus station', that carpark with the Costa was where it stood.
What a great fact! I had to look up the advert on UA-cam and yes, I do remember it!!! 😄 Thank you for sharing 😊
Spent my childhood on that beach with my Nanna and Grandad. Tearing up thinking about it!
❤️ it was a beautiful, peaceful place. A lovely accidental find. I hope it hasn’t made you sad 😢 x
Loved that editing on the beach 👌 first class work guys ❤️
Thanks Stephen 😊❤️
I am glad you enjoyed my home town. When you were at sandy gap if you had walked 300 yards left (as you look at the sea) you would have found the Round house community hub and got refreshments and just beyond that the Castle public house
We had a lovely day. It’s really frustrating to have missed things - but also a good excuse to return 😊
It would be great to return and see how the new Sandy Gap Visitors Centre
Best way to come in, through the lanes. The derelict buildings at barrow island were the tea house and canteen for the shipbuilding. They ceased being so in the late 80s early 90s I think. There was also a coffee house opposite on the Better side lol. But gone are the days people would ask to go to the coffee or tea house on the bus. The big school you approach on Walney past the golf club, I used to live in the caretakers house in the school grounds back when I went to that school. I spent many evenings down the beach back before they filled the views with the wind farms (unfortunately). Where the Sandy gap visitors centre is being built, 20 years ago was a cafe called the beachcomber. Back then the Fair used to come to the beach. It had moved from the big park, where it used to be before they built the leisure centre and the area turfs. But it caused disturbances to the residential areas and there would be lots of damage to the school.
You definitely need to pay roanhead a visit. Sandy beach. Not pebbles. Overlooks the dude on estuary. Views are of black Combe and millom.
Wow lots of wonderful history there.
We look forward to returning one day and exploring all the places mentioned in the comments on this vlog 😊
I live on Walney!!! Thank you for capturing its natural beauty ☺️
Thank you for your lovely comment. It was such a wonderful find. I’m so glad we got to spend the afternoon there and explore 😊
What’s your favourite spot?
@@TheHillsExplore my favourite spot is the Sandy gap beach as I live around the corner from it, but a lot of people go for the lighthouse and nature reserve on the other end! 🥰💕
Bara -in - famous
Played rugby against walney central there in mid 90s. In the middle of January in atrocious conditions and was stuck on the wing. Wet through and freezing knackers off. To top it off i got left behind and had to make my own way back to wakefield.
What a memory! Something you won’t forget but I’m sure it was character building Kevin!
if you visit again southend nature reserve to see the seals and piel island just off walney island with its castle and pub.can be reach by roa island by a little ferry.
Furness is blessed with some of the best beaches in the uk.Also.there is overnight parking between the roundhouse and the beach you visited.
Thank you Kip. We would really love to see more and the seals 🦭 in particular.
I hope we can chance to come back in 2023 and visit some of the sites suggested 😊
Worked there several times some of the guys who worked for the company where ex Vickers great people Great Town
There are a few Aires in Barrow to stay. One just up the road from where you were. Another ar Furness Abbey. And another near Barrow Park. Gla d you enjoyed your visit.
Thanks Neal. We’d love to stay at some Aires in the UK and support what they offer. We must try them when we are best in the area
hi im late i wwas born on walney island far south end farm on old park road my dad raised chickens bk in the late 50s i can just remember the farm burning down looks like its being built on must do a road trip bk up north
Thank you for sharing your memories. I wonder if the cafe is now finished too. We’d love to go back and it was certainly a peaceful find and a lovely way to spend an afternoon 😊
A bit naughty flying the drone there, it's right on the exclusion zone for Walney airfield (as is most of central Barrow unfortunately) - not to mention the no-fly-zone around the submarine facility. Still, no harm done, and some beautiful shots of the area!
Thanks for your comment, I always follow the dji notifications and submit my details to unlock the authorisation to fly. It’s a lovely area to capture on film.
used to swim off that beach back in the 70's
I hope it brought back some good memories 😊
@@TheHillsExplore it did, one of my brothers moved back there a few years ago, visit when i can
while on Walney should gone south to the nature reserve and lighthouse...north end is the airfield...
I'm from barrow, its definitely not a holiday destination.
We are going that way at the end of March.. Maybe a bit too cold to dip the toes in the sea though 😂
Ah nonsense!!! 😂😂
that boarded up building used to be the canteen for vickers workers and you are standing at coffee house corner
Oh really. We love a bit of local history to bring a place to life thank you. There were some amazing buildings that seem such a shame to be left empty.
Nice video, Barrow doesn’t look as bad as some make out, or is that just you’re incredibly great artistic video skills? Great video and thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your lovely comment. As usual we planned nothing 😅 and had no expectations but Walney Island was a brilliant find 😊
Barrow & surrounding area is stunning, Barrow has an industrial past but most of those buildings are long gone, Roanhead beach is a sand dune heaven, Roa & Piel Island are lovely castle & all, Superb free range zoo …not the tigers & rhino s obvs, Dock Museum is good to see the area’s history & Furness Abbey is one of the best ruins in England
lived in windrush crescent back then
I go to walney school
I went to Walney island once and got lost, and I ended up straying onto an airfield and had to find my way out quick before anyone found me.
Ooops!! The beach does go on and on. Would you consider going back again to see how it’s changed? (With a map this time) 😅
@@TheHillsExplore I couldn't go back there now as the trains have been ruined and made an ultra-EXclusive club, yet they still market them as "fully inclusive" which is nothing but propaganda and outright lies.