Scotland's Rare Highland Wilderness
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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Welcome to a new travel vlog from the Scottish highlands. In Ardnamurchan, I visit the Ariundle Oakwood, a national park and one of the last remaining pieces of Atlantic Oakwood forests in Scotland. Watch the previous episode here: • Our Scottish Highlands...
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Breath of Life by Gavin Luke: • Gavin Luke - Breath Of...
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Shaun... no words.. the stars...it made me weep. Being in the city l rarely see many stars and never twinkling!Ach ,if your folks need an American live in maid , please keep me in mind🥰good to see you walking about after your fall.Thats TOTALLY something l have done😆😆❤️all the best
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I may have missed it, but do your parents intend to do a B&B with the house, or make it their residence?
How far are you from the western coast?
My family is from the western part and Skye and we are looking to expat in Ireland tho if jobs are available on Tiree or Skye, we may go there
Loved the video and music!
Tracy Denny thank you Tracy. No decisions about what they’ll do with it yet but they may decide to B&B it. A long way to go for that though 😆 it’s right on the west coast
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Oh amazing! I'll be watching closely! It would be grand to stay there on a pre-move visit having watched the restoration.
And let your lovely wife know it was so nice to see her smiling face! I'm like her, the one behind the camera whilst my husband is in front. You guys are a beautiful couple!
Beautiful Shaun! Thank you. Just wondering- George(?) sounds South African?
Shaun you kept the phone trained on yourself throughout the whole fall! Now that’s a professional! 🤘😂❤️
I am officially going to Scotland to study at ST Andrews, I plan on visiting the highlands during my time there.
Lucky, you!! Safe travels!
Welcome to Scotland🏴
Yay! You'll love it. St Andrews is a beautiful town
I highly recommend seeing avimore and glenmore in the highlands some beautiful walks up there. The green lochan walk is my favourite.
It’s alright Shaun we’ve all fell a time or two walkin in the woods.
Shaun.. I know I've said this before.. but, dude.. you really SHOULD become Scotland's official tour guide! Your videos of the breathtaking scenery are magnificent and make it seem like we're really there with you! Excellent stuff!
Agree. I also feel that he should have been used as an extra in the Outlander series.
Absolutely gorgeous video! I've been to Scotland twice, and it's the only place I would consider living outside of my home state of Oregon. Maybe it's because they remind me of each other. When I crossed the border from England to Scotland, suddenly the land became wilder and more beautiful, and I was sure that's where all the fairies migrated to after the English cut, labeled and pasted their whole countryside. Thank you for reminding me of the beauty of Scotland.
You have a good Scottish name.
More than welcome to our little country.
That's okay Shaun. I do the occasional "gravity test" myself. And the older I get, the more of them I do. :)
This was truly amazing and I've never wanted to be any place so badly!
The beauty of this video brought tears to my eyes. I lived in Germany for 3 years (hubby is retired military) and traveled a lot, but regret not visiting Scotland. After receiving my DNA results from ancestry I found out I’m almost 40% Scottish I’ve become sort of obsessed w/Scotland (ok I’m also Outlander obsessed). I’m a transplanted Texan living in Maryland and it’s my dream to visit the highlands (or run away to the highlands 🙃). I always look forward to your videos. You’re a lucky guy to live in such a gorgeous place!!!
Thanks for the tour and the virtual walk in the woods. So beautiful. Hope you're not too sore after your slip/fall. Your parents conservatory...what a nice spot for some quiet time.
I do carpentry work in Texas and would LOVE to see a series on the remodeling of this beautiful house!
Thank you, Shaun! The thumbnail and the footage after your fall had the fall colors I've been missing the last 20 years!
So glad you didn't get hurt!
Would you plz be careful!!
Jeez, even falling, you make me laugh! 🤣🤣
Good thing this tumble, didn't happen in the Bayou!!
Love me a Highland adventure! 💙
- hello to Teka
Thanks for the peek Shaun - love from Denmark 🌸 💕
Beautiful scenery! Glad you were ok after your fall.
I'm glad you're okay. It's beautiful there. Your parents are so brave to take on the task of restoring the house.
LOVE THE BRIDGE! Reminds me of a swinging bridge that looked like that river , and I would scare my cousins by taking them on it and making it rock. They quit going into the woods with me. 😭😭😭
I studied in Edinburgh for 2 years and now got a job in England. But I fell in love with Scotland!! Best country in UK! People are absolutely friendly to foreigners, and the highlands are MAGICAL!! I only have good memories of Scotland and I’m always checking tickets to go up 💖
Hope you can come back and visit soon :)
Just stunningly beautiful Shaun! I'm going to watch this on my tv later! Wow! Great drone footage! What a beautiful place to be! Thank you! I'd be slipping too on that wet path. Love to you and Teka! Stay safe! 💕🏴
Hope ur ok, Shaun! Love the house! Love the wilderness shots! Thanks! 🥰👵🏼teri across The Pond
This video of the Ariundle Oakwood park which, absolutely should be protected and preserved. It's incredibly beautiful there! It's good to know that places like this still exist in the world. Hopefully we can keep it that way! Thank you for posting this video!! It's magnificent! 🍁👍
L loved everything about this, the house, nature, the colors the music, and YOU. Also love that your lovely wife is right by your side on your adventures.
Hope your okay from that fall, but i couldn't help but giggle, when Teka started laughing, but i hope your okay either way, & thanks again Shaun for a wonderful video! absolutely Beautiful!
Hi Shaun. I mentioned moving to Scotland a few videos ago, and I failed to include I am actually a forester. If I move, I would be looking to practice forestry and your trip right here, really helps inspire. It would be nice to find a forester there to take a trip with and share knowledge and expertise.
I would love to watch a youtube channel dedicated to the refurbishing of your parents new home. I would watch every episode. And thank you so much Shaun for taking us on a hike with you. I'm getting older now and not able to take my family hiking and I miss it so much. I could never afford to travel abroad and I love Scotland so seeing it here was a delicious treat for me. I hope you weren't harmed when you took you fall. Good luck to your folks on their new endeavors and I hope their dreams for the new home are realized. Thanks again for sharing. Love from America.
Thank you for the gorgeous footage of that area of Scotland. It is also really interesting to see the renovation of your parents manse (if that is the correct word?). Seeing the stone work and that old blue and white wallpaper they uncovered was really cool. I hope you or they are able to share more as the work progresses.
Those aerial shots are breathtaking Shaun. You truly live in a magic kingdom 👍
Oh, so glad you are ok. Thank you so much for sharing this lovely hike of yours! 🤗
You handled your fall quite well. Hope you didn't hurt yourself. Thanks for an absolutely picturesque video. Your drone shots made me want to come on over and enjoy the Scottish countryside. Looking forward to seeing more of the progress on your cottage. Have a pleasant weekend. ❤🛫🙏🌎
What a beautiful walk through the woods. It literally hurt me to see you fall. I hope you are ok Shaun.
Thank you for the beautiful scenic tour....and a bit of history. I am so jealous of that night sky view that you have.🌌
Simply stunning. It reminds me so much of my childhood home in West Virginia. I understand why my Scottish ancestors settled in the Appalachians - it must've been a welcome sight! Thank you, Shaun!
We have a lot of Oak trees here in America in the south and pine. The pine we cut, but not the Oaks. You saw some huge old Oak trees when you visited New Orleans and Texas. We have tree farms that are planted to be cut and used. If you see a big old Oak tree that is 400 or older don’t think about cutting it, even if it is on your property unless it is diseased or dead! Their are people that spend thousands on saving an old Oak tree. They are so much of the South’s history. Did you get a chance to go to any of the antebellum homes on the Mississippi river while you were in New Orleans? That is where you see the biggest Oak trees, beautiful!
That is absolutely gorgeous. But it looks so cold!
That is absolutely gorgeous. I am glad to see that people have not managed to destroy everything.
The scenery is sublime, seriously, like out of a fairytale.
Thank you for making this video. I canna wait to see more of the Heelands!!
It's so beautiful there! I wish to visit your country soon. Hopefully you are not too sore from the fall.
Thank you for sharing this 🙏🏾
Phenomenal photography Shaun! Absolutely beautiful. I feel homesick even tho I have never been to Scotland.🏴💜
Stunning! that river and sky shot at 8:19!!!! omg it could be a painting. What a slice of heaven this video is in a tense time. You're such a talented photographer, and the music is ethereal, absolutely gorgeous...
This will be interesting to see when they get finished 👍🏼
Glad to see your wife! You don’t look like you’re hurt from the fall! You will be sore tonight and tomorrow especially tomorrow. Soak in a Hot tub of water and take 3 Ibuprofen. I am a nurse and know these thing plus, I am been known to have fallen a lot! Lol
A wee sore bottom but other than that I’m fine 🙂
Bloomin' lovely! It's makin' me cry! Mourning for the trip my daughter and I had to cancel to the Highlands. But perhaps we've gained another gorgeous and meaningful place we might visit when we do finally get to come. Sigh. Thank you for the sweet walk with you two. 🥰😊
P.S. A bit of comedy fallin' off the walkway (without serious injury) adds to the narrative!
P.S.S. I think your music choices are always brilliant. This one added depth to my yearning to be there!
The drone shots and the music in this video were so calming 😌
Beautiful surroundings! The colors of the leaves against the backdrop of moss, lovely. And that river!!
Sorry to see you take a tumble Shaun, but WOW what incredible footage you got. Stunning!
🍁 The range of Autumn colors of this forest is absolutely breath-taking. Marvelous moss too. Loved the musical sound of the💧water💦 cascading down the rocks.
🍂Fall leaves are my most favorite, but 😔sadly we do not get such a large or dramatic presentation of them in the greater Los Angeles area🌳.
🌌Enjoyed your starry night footage too. Beautiful video & drone footage. Thank you for letting us join you on your
🌾nature🌱 ramble🚶♂️.
😉Glad your pride was the only thing to take a hit by your fall. Impressive that you kept your composure & held the camera otherwise. ☮💛🌼
Thanks for taking me back to a place I have not been for 20 years.
Thank you for posting videos of beautiful Scotland!!!!! I can’t wait to see how your parent’s renovation turns out!!!!!!
I swear Scotland looks like it has the most beautiful autumn in the world. Prove me wrong.
I’ll need to keep travelling to see them all 😊🍂
Crazy wet though
It's stunning. I went to the Cairngorm area in late September and got changing color and a lot of heather still blooming. But bring your waterproof clothes!
Such a beautiful place! Glad to see you were not hurt badly from your fall. You might look into getting a GPS locator to carry on your wilderness adventures. Anyone can have an accident and be out of cell phone range.
I see why the Highlanders chose to settle in the Appalachian mountains. It reminded them of home. ☺
So beautiful and so calming, peaceful! Thanks a lot, Shaun, for sharing those wonders.
Love your choice of music, it fits so well with the beauty of the Highlands..You took your fall quite in stide, LOL...I hope you come to visit my home turf, Yosemite and Sequoia National Park when you come back to the US!! Just a quick note....we bought a foreclosed home in 2008, we're still not finished, so good luck to all of you!!
I have some jewelry made out of Scottish heather branches. The color in the wood of the branches is amazing. They put a bunch of branches together then put a resin on them to make a block then cut and shaped it, just stunning. My little piece of Scotland.....very cherished. The trees in our forests look about the same especially in Kentucky. And the Carolinas, Pennsylvania....just gorgeous. But then when they awake in the spring....breath taking. Walk carefully Shaun!!! It happens, I stumble all the time in my yard, not looking where I’m going.....glad your ok!!! Ggeeezzzz! Please stay safe out there, need to see you here!! Always a joy. ❤️❤️❤️
I always love when you show the highlands. It seems so similar to the areas around me at the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains in Virginia in the US. I have seen forest areas all around the world (mainly on vids) but very few places look so similar. The area you traveled in North (or was it South) Carolina was also not that different.
When finding old walls in a house that old, I would be worried about arsenic wallpaper if it shows up as a vivid green. It was used a fair amount in the Victorian period and made so many people very ill. My own house is about 100 years old, but the worst we have to worry about is lead paint.
Not too far off actually! The highlands are technically the same mountain range as the Appalachians
@Zimke42 Shaun went to the mountains of western North Carolina. I live on the eastern side of the state, about 45 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean.
@@johnnabuzby6103 Yes, I remeber him going to a Scottish festival there. I also remember him being scared of bears... black bears are all we have in this part of the contry, and they aren't aggressive as long as you give them space and don't go near their cubs. I wanted to talk through the screen and tell him there was nothing to worry about.
@@Zimke42 So did I. I have to admit I was laughing at Shaun's reactions to every little noise he heard on his walk.
I live in a small city in eastern North Carolina. New Bern to be exact. Named after Bern, Switzerland 🇨🇭. Bern is the Swiss word for bear. We have bears here in the forests and woods around New Bern...both real ones and around 50 or so fiberglass ones painted in different themes displayed at various points around town. The city did that to celebrate our 300th anniversary in 2010.
ohh Shaun, breathtaking drone footage, and the area is weep worthy Beautiful.
Thank you so much Shaun, this was a very calming, beautiful and refreshing video. Love, love, love the woodland walk and the scenes of the river. Colour of the foliage is super vibrant I am now totally chilled out. Made my morning delightful so thanks again . Stay safe and healthy xx
I'm glad you weren't hurt too badly by falling. That area is beautiful and it's easy to picture it as it was 300 years ago. The stars at night must be so beautiful. Are there many chances of seeing the Northern Lights at that latittude?
No
@@jamesbuehler1013 Yes you can. It's just a very infrequent event. The Northern Lights have been observed at lower latitudes than the Ardnamurchan peninsula.
@@jamesbuehler1013 Here's one of Shaun's videos from Edinburgh:
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just WOW! Thank you Shaun for taking us with you during your walk in the beautiful Highlands!
I totally love your accent and your emotion in each video. It’s amazing how proud you are of your beautiful country, it’s a lovely country. Greetings from Mexico🇲🇽
Thank you Brenda 😊 hope you can visit one day 🏴 🇲🇽
I enjoyed seeing the Scottish Highlands. Thanks for the tour. I'm glad you weren't hurt when you stepped off the walkway! That could've been bad.'
Great views of the scenery. Beautiful shots and also from the drone. It definitely is breathtaking. The music that you choose fit the video perfectly. Thanks for taking us along Shaun.
Saun, thank so very much for sharing the beauty of your country.
Shaun* Saun
Gorgeous drone footage, here, Shaun‼️🙌✨ Really enjoy these nature walks (as long as you stay on the walkway😏). Thank you for all of the work you put into your videos.
Thanks Shaun, had to put off my trip to Scotland this year. Your videos help fill in somewhat. The highlands are my destination. Inverness, Dimwell & the nc 500. Hope to see all in Oct., next year. Keep up the good work, it helps alot
I'm in love with Scotland🥺❤️
You sold a great part of scotland keep the good videos coming. Perfect.
Wow!! This is a great video! The drone shots of the woods are fabulous. The trees are hauntingly beautiful! But I'm sorry Shaun, I had to laugh when you fell in the intro and even more when you laughed at yourself! It's all too familiar to me as I fell in my yard last week. But I landed on my knee instead of my backside. I'm sure I had that same shocked look on my face going down as you did! But please stay off the roof... You did fall off a 4 inch high board walk! Love the tours, great job!
Beautiful video! I walked the WHW a few years back--the Highlands are magical.
Wow! That was truly beautiful Shaun! Definitely adding this Oakwood forest to the list of places I need to visit when we are allowed to travel safe again! Thanks for sharing!
That fall though...Glad you're okay. But, that giggle made me laugh.😄😊
Just beautiful! I wish your parents the best of luck with this ambitious project.
Shaun you are so fortunate you didn't get hurt badly. So thankful Teka was with. It's always good to have someone with when out hiking. Your folks getaway in the Highlands looks great. Are they going to rent it out to visitors by chance? Would love to stay one day when I get to Scotland. Glad you, Teka and your family are doing well. Please stay safe Shaun and God bless you and yours always. 🌷💜😊
Simply spectacular!!! I'm glad you didn't hurt yourself when you fell!! I fell literally flat on my face this week. I tripped over a stupid mole Hill in our yard that was covered by fallen leaves. Fortunately no injuries except to my pride. LOL
Wow, thanks for the beautiful walk Shaun. Both lovely and peaceful. Watch your step!
The oaks I saw looked less than 75 to 100 years old. Area looks like it has been harvested around 1900. Its naturally in filling but still not an uncut forest. Will take hundreds of years to recover to primal forest , including culling non native species.
I enjoyed seeing the Highlands. What a beautiful place. I'm from the states. I Hope to see the transformation of your parents place. The walk in the wood was great. Maybe you can take many walks through out the year with the changing seasons. I love these videos. Your music pick is perfect!
Beautiful footage, the highlands are so breathtaking!
Bless your parents for taking on a fixer-upper, as they would say in the States.
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Thanks again for sharing the beautiful scenery!
I just love this. I would love to visit Scotland some day but I may never get the chance..but your videos definitely allow me to live through you. Thank you so much for this. Hope your bum isn’t too sore from the fall!
Aloha Shaun! What a treat! We(obviously) don't have "Fall"🍁🍂 here in Hawaii, the forest, leaves, landscape are a different type of gorgeous there!
Thank you so much for sharing and taking is with you. The colours, the tranquility of the water, mountains and forrest.... gosh. Will be coming over to hike! Thanks again.. 🍀
Thank you for the beautiful video. The scenery is so amazing. Please keep us updated on your parents remodeling project. There is alot of work to do on that house. I'm sure it will look amazing when finished.
I thoroughly enjoy your nature videos the best. Scotland has so much natural beauty that is amazing. Someone posted their hiking on the West Highland Way and the scenery was jaw dropping beauty. Maybe you could walk that some day. Thanks for this video.
Shaun, I hope you didn't hurt yourself falling! It is a very lovely area and it will be interesting to see the renovation. Thank you for sharing this video. Take Care!
This was so serene! You make it so interesting! Scotland is definitely on my bucket list.
beautiful... thanks for sharin'
So beautiful! Thanks for showing us around, Shaun. I’m amazed no one else was there. Not too cold? Midgies gone? I think autumn must be the time to visit.
Shout out to Periodic Videos, the element Strontium is named for Strontian, which you mentioned the river by that name here.
A fine walk, had a caravan at Resipole for years. Love the place, your parents are lucky to be living in such a fantastic
Vermont is mountainous and similar to Scotland where you are. Lots of various trees, rivers, lakes, etc. lovely, very much so.🥰
Beautiful. Glad you're alright.
Head up to Foyers one day. Robert Burns wrote poetry about the Falls of Foyers and Loch Ness.
These videos are gorgeous with the scenery and music. They are out together really well.
Enjoying the tour so beautiful and unique. A YT channel documentary of you parents restoring would be interesting. At the least keep a digital record of the process. Peace.
Gorgeous!! 🥰🏴
Awww Shaun that gave me a wee giggle this morning hope your ok but it was funny when you fell 💙🏴
Shaun, it's a good thing you weren't walking over mud when you fell off the walkway, or you'd have looked lots worse for the experience. LOL
Beautiful! If I get to Scotland I want to go there and plant some oaks.
LMAO..🤣.spectacular, funny and such awesome footage. What a beautiful beautiful place the woodlands. Thank you for sharing....😄