OFF-GRID LIFE in the SLOW LANE - Narrowboat inspired by nature - episode 94
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Living off-grid on my narrowboat home on a British canal has changed my life!
As a single liveaboard, I'm never lonely, as the nature and wildlife that surrounds me keeps me company and provides me with great entertainment. On this narrowboat vlog episode... I go cruising the cut to find a new mooring, visit the services and turn the boat around 180°. A kingfisher bird turns up outside my bedroom window! I wake up early to watch magical scenes of the mist on water. And check out my floating garden. It's looking blooming good this summer! Look out for my canine friends, Asher and Winnie! Get ready to slow down! Let me share with you my mindfulness and relaxing moments from my canal boat home down on the canal.
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I once lived in the fast lane of life, married for 26 years, with two children. Ten years ago, I suddenly lost my wife to cancer. Suffering from depression, one morning I woke up in hospital, after attempting to take my own life. From that moment, and escaping the rat race, finding peace and tranquility on the canal, living on my canal boat, I've managed to turn my life around, get back on my feet, and now live life in the slow lane. In all the peace and stillness that I experience now, my happiness, self confidence and love has returned. As I'm inspired by nature myself, my purpose in life is to inspire others, by sharing my wonderful experiences. However dark life can get, light can always be found. Dave
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Hello Dave, new subscriber here. What an amazing and inspiring video, introduction and your origin story that drives your day-to-day. I can sense you've found so much peace and contentment.
This is the best vlog/documentary and purposeful channel I've stumbled on youtube. You make the mundane things look so beautiful and precious.
Regards from Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you for tuning into my channel, subscribing, and for your kind words 🙏 Dave
Dave, What an inspiring vlog.The kingfisher footage was outstanding.
Keep these vlogs going Dave there getting me throw me cancer treatment.
Take Care
Dave😍
Caro Dave, ti ho trovato guardantoti su Pillow. Sei un grande uomo. Tutti abbiamo da imparare da te. Sono sicuro che la amata tua moglie Sue è sempre con te assieme alla Grazia di Dio. Mi sono iscritto al tuo canale e guarderò tutti i tuoi video. Siamo tutti fortunati poiché esistono persone come te. Grazie e ricordati che non sei solo. ❤ Un sincero abbraccio dall'Italia. Domenico
Thank you for tuning in, watching, your kind words, and subscribing 🙏 Dave
Dave, what an incredible way to live. What a glorious life you have been blessed with and how your videos inspire, uplift and fill your viewers with joy. Thank you.
Vielen Dank Dave für das tolle Video, wunderbare Natur pur.👍❤Gruss aus Cuxhaven - Germany
At 67 years of age I envy you that you are able to live in the moment. I can’t imagine ever being able to slow myself down and enjoy life as you do. BUT MAYBE…… You give me hope. I’m subscribing to you. I wish you many more years of health and happiness my new friend. 🇺🇸
Hi Max. Thank you for tuning in to my channel and subscribing 🙏 Dave.
Dave….simply wonderful and relaxing material. If anyone needs to learn how to embrace ‘down time’ they need go no further than here! I know you talk about not needing to know names of plants etc…but I saw you embrace what looks like cow parsley or Queen Anne lace…just be aware that there’s a look alike that is most seriously toxic out there. I’ve put a couple links to it (one originating from UK so I would imagine it’s there too). Just touching it is toxic to skin! Please be careful…
The beauty and simplicity of life that you capture is profound…I could just listen/watch all day. I was raised being outside in nature so I relate to your intoxicated mind when you talk. Wouldn’t it be amazing if every soul found what you have… a more peaceful, respectful, and amazing life we would all share!
Keep them coming…thanks for your gift of sharing your talents 🙏🏻
Thank you for your kind words and for watching 🙏 Dave
Thank you Dave for sharing such beautiful English countryside. We always look forward to your videos. 🙏❤
Thank you 🙏
Hi Dave, nice to have you back I missed you, i took this video down to show my mum since my dad died couple of months ago, gives her something to look4ward too.
She was well impressed with the kingfisher and the bluetit that came for afternoon tea.
Fantastic video Dave , thank you, we can't wait to see your next video mate.
Take care ❤ X X X
Aww bless, how lovely to hear that your mum enjoyed the video! 🙏
Hope you share many more with her. Thanks for watching. Dave
I joined the American military in the late 80's, i turned 18 years old while on my first assignment to a short tour special duty assignment in Germany... By 1990 i ended up in living in Banbury, England not far from the canal and Mill, i was 20 years old and i absolutely fell in love with canal boats. Thank you for sharing ❤️🇺🇲
I'm from banbury 😂
Dave- Im jealous! Ive been wanting to do this for years. Im 76 and been looking for a pontoon boat for years. In Canada they are hard to find but ill keep looking. I am a retired marine mechanic so I can keep things running. Love your channel. Greetings from Perth Ontario Canada.
I pray it works out for you. We need to live our best and full lifes. Blessings from Ireland 🌹❤️🌹
Thanks for watching. Wishing you the best in finding your new floating home! Dave
Smashing photography! Good to see you again!
Thank you kindly! 🙏 Dave
Just lovely thank Dave ❤
Ho appena visto la tua intervista su the pillow….pregherò per la tua serenità!🙏🏻
Sei una bella persona❤
Un abbraccio
Idem veramente una persona meravigliosa
The scenery could not be more beautiful ❤ Thank you for sharing in your lifestyle and adventures with us. Cheers from Canada :)
Ciao Dave, grazie di questi 30 minuti di pace, serenità e bellezza...
Un abbraccio di Luce🫂 alla prossima👋
🫂 🙏 Dave
Just came across your channel. This is exactly what I need from the Stress I’m under. You are a blessing. Thank you for introducing me to beautiful birds and Peace and quiet of nature. I am from the state of Ohio in USA . God Bless you. Carri 🤗💖🐦🌸💕
Thank you for tuning in to my channel. I'm pleased to hear it's helpful in relieving some stress for you. 🙏 Dave
Ciao Dave, grazie per avermi portato sul fresco dei canali, in queste settimane in Italia fa un caldo terribile! Saluti da Venezia ❤
Thank you 🙏 I must visit Venice one day! Dave
Lovely calming video Dave. You definitely manifested the kingfisher 😊🙏🩷
Thanks for watching and your comment. 🙏 Dave
Very peaceful and beautiful, you are a rich man!
Hi Dave, As an American subscriber, watching you brings a calming effect to my day. I am nearly 67 years old now, and I can relate to getting back to nature. I live in the Appalachian mountains of East Tennessee, I grew up here and still call these mountains home. Thanks for you just being you
Thanks Paul for your kind words and being a subscriber of my channel. Best wishes, Dave 🙏
Wow stunning filming that kingfisher footage was just stunning incredible 😊thanks for sharing I love mother nature
Thanks for tuning in and watching 🙏 Dave
Wonderful. Nature, pleasant music and wise words. Can't tell you how much I needed this half an hour of pure gold.
Thanks for tuning in and watching. I'm pleased it brought you something special 🙏 Dave
Thanks for taking me on this wonderful nature trip and showing this special creature the king fisher and the first bird you showed singing for you , happy days
Hi Dave love watching your videos it calms my mind etc and helps me relax … looking myself to buy a narrow boat at the minute for this way of life thank you 👍
Wonderful. I love your outlook and philosophy of slowing down and being present with nature. And I've always loved the canals and narrowboats in England. So cosy and beautiful. Thank you for sharing 🙏
Thanks for watching and commenting. 🙏
Episode 95 launches tomorrow afternoon, stay tuned!
Superb wildlife photography Dave, you never let us down in that respect. Enjoy boat life.
I resonate with you! I live in the mountains in a tiny home.... Absolutely, love my life. Blessings to you on your journey❤
Thanks for watching and connecting 🙏 Dave
Mother Nature certainly knows how to give a fantastic show of colours and different flowers all along the pathway and when you go out on your journeys ❤
What a very relaxing video, you captured the organic feel of your surroundings, thank you .
Thank you for tuning in and your kind words 🙏 Dave
Thank you very peaceful film well done first time I have seen your video will watch more often
Fantastic natural photography, thanks for sharing it.
Thank you for watching this episode 🙏 Dave
Wow the production on these videos is amazing!
Lovely to meet you today on the canal. Myself and my husband were just launching our paddleboards when you asked us to help with your camera. 😊
This is like a BBC countryfile production...very impressive!
Claire
Hi Claire 👋 thank you for helping me film a scene for the next episode! Nice to meet you. Pleased you like my channel and films. Thanks for your kind words 🙏 Dave
@@inspiredbynature3 Nice to see your film. I am a nature photographer.Much inspiration to look at you and your canal boat.
Goedendag, ik kwam u toevallig tegen op youtube en uw verhaal greep mij aan. Ik vind uw levensstijl geweldig. Mijn man en ik hebben jaren gezeild en later ook een motorboot aangeschaft helaas kreeg mijn een hersentumor en moesten wij noodgedwongen afstand doen van onze boot. Maar door u te volgen geniet ik weer een beetje van op het water zijn.
Gelukkig nieuwjaar en alle goeds voor 2025.
This is one of the best channels on YT. The film quality is top notch.
Thankyou for tuning in and watching 🙏 Dave
Thank you for your kind words 🙏 Dave
You have a tranquil life Dave, even I can see what you have and it is so much better than this fast modern world now, 👍
perfect for a chilled Friday, Nice one Dave, atb
Glad you enjoyed it 😊 Dave
Thank you Dave for sharing your journey on canals on which l may never do thanks ben
Thank you Ben 🙏 Dave
Beautiful video, Dave! I loved watching the Kingfisher and how he turned around to show off his feathers. And the tea cup feeder is adorable. The visitors looked like trick-or-treaters coming to get a treat.
This was a wonderful video! The segment with the Kingfisher was amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏
Hi Dave, I just found tour channel today and I’m so glad I did, I am having some anxiety at the moment but your videos are so calming
Welcome onboard 🙏
I have cruised the canals for a total of 3 months from 3 different trips and seen 100s of narrowboat videos ... this video is one of the best I have seen.
Thank you for tuning in and watching and for your kind words 🙏 Dave
I love your videos I suffer from depression and anxiety and panic attacks your videos calm me down I live not far from Macclesfield I would love to come and say hello to u
Grazie per i tuoi contenuti bellissimi e immagini altrettanto bellissime. Che Dio sia con te. Mi sono iscritto dall' Italia, e da qui ti abbraccio con affetto .
Ciao 🙏 Dave
Clever bird-feeder- that cup and saucer! I'm minded to borrow that idea. 🥰
You should! 🙏 Dave
What a great shot of that kingfisher!
Thank you for a beautiful video. Such a nice break in my day.
Good morning. I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Dave 🙏
Hi Dave I’m so delighted that you have reached nearly 30,000 subscribers so well deserved, doesn’t your heart soar when you see a kingfisher I absolutely love them, great vlog again, thank you feeling very chilled 🌱🙏🏼🪷
Hi Dave, I found your channel from The Pillow. Thanks for sharing your life experiences, good and bad. Greetings and hugs from Italy!
Welcome to my channel. Hope you enjoy my vlogs 🙏 Dave
@@inspiredbynature3vlog di pace e serenità 🫂
Some of those flowers are like a good herbal coffee like ❤
I have been ill and watching this helps me feel better. Love your 😊videos
Hi, thanks for watching my videos, and it's lovely to hear that it's been helping you feel better 🙏 Dave
The beauty and wonders you share with us all Dave are stunning , I thank you so very much for your amazing videos❤
Brilliant photography
Thank you David I will probably next have this life but I can enjoy the amazing serenity and joy of it all
How lucky to get the kingfisher on camera doing what it does best! Such a peaceful time can be had. Excellent quality videos and I love to watch
Can’t beat living on a boat I used to love staying on my mates broads cruiser on the Norfolk and Suffolk broads the mist on the water at 4.30-6 in the morning you can’t beat just subscribed mate Awsome little channel on boating
Thanks for watching and subscribing. Welcome onboard 🙏 Dave
Dave I come across your channel a few days ago!!! And I must say I find watching these emotional in a good way, I suffer with mental health issues and watching your channel calms me. So Dave thank you.
Another lovely video, beautifully filmed. I always feel calm and relaxed after watching them. Can’t wait for the next one.😊
Pleased you enjoyed it watching and that you found it calming.
Dave 🙏
What a beautiful vlog. Thank you. The birds and the flowers. So peaceful.
What an absolutely fantastic video. I've been dealing with traumatic incidents for the past 28 years. This is the life I want to live when I retire in the next few months(don't know about my wife.) Thankyou for opening my eyes. The King fisher made me cry, such joy in the natural world.
Thanks for watching 🙏 Dave
I really enjoyed the kingfisher footage. It was my late Auntie’s favorite animal. So beautiful ❤
Yes keep your boat ship shape and bristle fashion as the saying goes 👍❤
Love the video. Going through a pressure cooker of financial stress across the pond in the States and your video definitely dropped my blood pressure a few points and gave me a temporary escape. Cheers!
It's lovely to hear from you and how it helped release a bit of pressure. Hopefully, you will be able to have another dose of tranquility, with my next episode or all my previous episodes in my playlist. 🙏 Dave
Wow how nice and calming like the way you are narrating it just what I needed after watching the riots in the UK. Thank you 😊
I just found your channel and loving nature, seeing your Budda staue then showing Jazzy's singing bowls, I knew you were a lile minded soul. Peace, love and light to you 🙏
Thank you for tuning into my channel. Please do subscribe! (It's Free) I hope you enjoy my previous and next episodes of Inspired by nature . 🙏 Dave
Fantastic video. The Kingfisher was lovely. I saw one last week perched on a branch on the River Ayr in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Beautiful birds.
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Again in hospital again this year 10 times😢 watching your video's give me much joy, in times feel bad, thank you Dave.❤
Hi Edward, I've got a new episode coming your way soon. Hopefully, it will bring some healing energy for you. 🫂 ❤️ 🙏 Dave
@@inspiredbynature3 Thank you Dave!❤️
Thanks for another beautiful vlog Dave... amazing stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it. Dave 🙏
Watching this from Oregon, which I definitely find to be a beautiful place to live. However I must say, you have found yourself quite the slice of Nature to bask in there. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching 🙏 Dave
Always a joy to watch.Thank you!
Thank you for a beautiful videos, you have a good day 😊
Thanks for sharing this lovely vlog❣️🇨🇦
Hello Canada 🇨🇦 thanks for your comment and watching 🙏 Dave
Love spending time with you Dave, so peaceful and tranquil x
I love your vlogs its great to see someone highlighting boat life and having a great time doing it its also great to see you highlight issues with moving a boat as theirs a lot of none boaters that wont understand the stress of having a boat coming the other way and no space to pull in and how difficult it can be to reeverse a narrowboat
Thanks for watching and your comment 🙏
Magic! Thank you.
a lovely few moments of much needed calm, wishing many days like these - thank you
Good evening Dave, thank you for your channel and your wise words and lifestyle, I suffer from anxiety and have had a few dark days but your lastest video and your words at the end was just what I needed you are a bright light and I try so much to live in nature and away from the high speed life goes by. Life is for the now the most amazing things are free and amazing to experience keep well and I look forward to all your videos I've watched everyone . This world would be so much better if we could all be like you.
Hi, Dave. I've only just found your channel, and I subscribed and liked as soon as I had finished watching it.
Yours is a narrowboat channel with a difference. It isn't all about travelling, although it does have enough to enjoy the different scenery. But the big difference is the way you look at nature and talk about it in such an interesting, relaxing way. I'll be trying to find some of your previous videos. Thank you for some brilliant photography, too. Not just brief glimpses, but long enough to take it all in and enjoy it. It's is wonderful.☺
Thank you for tuning into my channel, and thank you for your kind words . Welcome onboard 🙏 Dave
You have me at slow
Delightful.
Cheers from Australia.
One of the best places on earth ...❤❤❤❤ Connecting with nature
Just found your channel on UA-cam and watching it on our tv. Absolutely beautiful photography and we loved the kingfisher and the other birds. We have a narrow boat too but are not continuous cruisers. When my husband has recovered from eye surgery we’ll be back on the Cut.
Thank you for sharing your life and thoughts with us.
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Hi, thanks for tuning in and watching. I'm pleased you've enjoyed the episode. Hope your husbands eye heals quickly, sobyou can go cruising. Do please share with others 🙏 Dave
Beautiful scenes Dave, when I used to go carp fishing those misty mornings were always the best, very well filmed & edited sir 👍🇬🇧
Thank you, Smiffy.
Dave
Such beautiful videos Dave. The nature, peace and tranquility is just so calming, and just what I need. Thankyou 🙏🏻
Thanks for watching and for your kind words 🙏 Dave
I saw your story on an Italian YT channel (the pillow) and I was impressed by your words. You are an example for every single person in this world. We need more of this. Wish you all the best in your life 🌱🙏🏼
Thank you for tuning into my channel and watching. 🙏
Dave
How amazing 💗 I love nature and wild life and birds so much! Thank you Very much for your excellent videos! Don't stop please 🙏
From Ukraine
Привіт, дякую за перегляд і за добрі слова. Сподіваюся, мир скоро повернеться для всіх в Україні. Приємно знати, що моє відео приносить у вашу країну хвилини спокою та миру. Звуки природи і запахи природи - все це чудово, чи не так? так багато внутрішнього зцілення приходить від перебування на природі.
Dave 🙏
Hope that translates, OK? 😊
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Just beautiful , i gasped at the kingfisher as i just know how i would feel seeing that right in front of me :)
Thank you so much for this post, Wonerfullmellow music and mood. Youinspire me for myown narrowboat travels next year. More, please, more!
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Thank you for sharing all the beauty!
Thanks for watching 🙏
Excellent video mate. Makes me want to get on the cut. 😇
I see you have green fingers much like me then Dave , very colourful your flowers ❤❤
Thanks from me too. I feel renewed. Luv from Hertfordshire………land locked!
Thank you, thank you for tuning in and watching 🫂 Dave 🙏
The Garden we live in is Adams Garden that Father God gave him and he also gave him the animals and Adam named everything because we have dominion over them. What lovely videos you make. I live in the country and if I am feeling down, I just go for a drive and the Country surroundings have a healing effect on me.
Nature is a great healer. Thank you for watching 🙏 Dave
You have inspired me to follow you and your journey,,I'm sorry for your loss😢I saw you on another channel and managed to find you here on your channel..im hoping to get a boat and unplug front this digital world..bless you my friend and thank you for inspiring me your strength is incredible..
Thank you for tuning into my channel and for your kind words 🙏 Dave.
Episode 95 now streaming on my channel enjoy! Dave
So beautiful.... thank you so much for sharing this lovely Video. I am Happy for you..and the birds and bees and insects. Thanks😊🙏🌿☀️ Namasté and wishing a beautiful day for everyone ..from Germany
So nice of you, thanks 🙏 Dave
What a wonderful charming life ❤
I would like to be brave enough to live your way, in your wonderful country (that I find out to be a lovely place every time I come there).
A warm hello to you from Italy
One day you will 🙏
Our kingfishers, here in North America, seem to have more pronounced tufts on the back of their heads. Our Ringed Kingfisher most closely resembles the kingfisher you have featured in this video. They are lovely birds!!!
lovely to look at. with a little bird as a gift❤
What a beautifully made meditative film! New subscriber! 😊
Thanks for tuning into my channel and subscribing 🙏 Dave
you are a wonderful person living a wonderful life 💚
What a beautiful vlog . Xx
Thank you 🙏 Dave