Just look at the channels behind the island - it is like sailing through a piece of artwork. I have never been anywhere like this place. I am not a spiritual man but.......
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Thanks for putting me on to Liz Carroll and John Doyle, just brilliant.
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Bob
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Happy Christmas Dylan , hope you have a relaxing & peaceful day with friends and family.
I’m saving this film up for this evening once all the commercial stuff on TV is over and the kids are in bed.
Cheers
G
Hi Dylan, hope you’re having a good Christmas. You mention having been to Amble, which is SWMBO’s home town. It doesn’t appear in the film. Did you not film there, or did it get edited out? Shame if it did, as it’s an interesting place with a hermit’s cave up the river Coquet and a brilliant view of Warkworth castle.
Best wishes
John Booth
Also Alnmouth, seem to remember you had a nice time there, it is beautiful, maybe you could do an outtakes vid??!
Wonderful stuff Dylan… a vivid and evocative glimpse of the Northumberland coast from a small boat and, in particular, you seem to have captured some of the magic of Lindisfarne in easily downloadable form.
I was moved sufficiently to make a well-deserved donation.
However, I did think your comments about Grace Darling were mean-spirited so I’m afraid I had to dock you £1. Hyperbole, furore and media frenzy – yes (and the story of her life after the rescue leaves a bitter taste). But all that came, uninvited, long after the Darlings took the decision to put out in the coble, in the belief that they were the only hope for those left stranded on the rocks and on the grim understanding that they risked their lives in doing so. The successful outcome was an act of great skill, strength and courage.
Her dad was a serial rescuer and made a habit of such things (although by many accounts he took some persuasion in this case). I’m sure that his role would have been well recognised among his peers and locally and that probably meant more than the national frenzy thrust on poor Grace.
What I’d never picked up until recently is that he was convinced the North Sunderland (Seahouses) lifeboat would not be able to come out given the conditions, but that it did in fact make the journey, finding only the dead left on the rocks. The lifeboat crew, which included Grace’s brother, then sought shelter at the lighthouse on the grounds it was too difficult to return to port. There’s a movie moment there, with the Darlings stunned that the lifeboat crew have turned up… and the crew stunned that the Darlings somehow have 9 survivors at the lighthouse. The lifeboat was weather-bound, with insufficient food, dry clothing and accommodation, for three days and even then couldn’t get back into Seahouses. No shortage of unsung heroism that day.
For Info Dylan. Amongst your souvenirs, the metal window sash weight on the wooden spar was probably a crab pot weight still on part of the pot. We use to use them on the South coast as well
I enjoyed this video very much, thanks, John S.
I enjoyed it as well. Even though I know lots of fishermen and ex-fishermen who are quite jolly. Particularly in the pub.