Beautiful Budleigh Buns - the Rocks on This Beach Are SO PRETTY But I Cannot Possess Them!

[@PeterFalconII]

Question... If it's illegal to take stones/pebbles from the beach. Why is it legal for you to keep a fossil in a stone?

[@heikesiegl2640]

Depends on the beach

[@AtomicShrimp]

It is a good question. The Coastal Protection Act 1949 forbids removal of *all* materials from beaches, which, if taken extremely literally, means a child would be committing a crime when they bring home a seashell, or indeed, you'd be committing a crime of negligence if you walk away with a bit of sand in your shoe. Obviously there is some nuance required. Reality: People are expected to be reasonable. You're probably not going to be in trouble for taking one rock. This law exists primarily to provide a means to prosecute people or companies who exploit the mineral resources on a bulk or commercial scale, which would cause damage to the coastline. It must be so, because whilst this law exists, and applies everywhere, you will also find official signage at fossil beaches which tell you about the fossils you can find there with an expectation that they will be collected and taken home. My interpretation of all this: be reasonable in general, obey local rules, and in my particular case as a content creator, be _responsible_ - don't encourage people to disobey the locally-posted rules.

[@alexandregb566]

​@AtomicShrimp Imagine being arrested because you carried salt on your skin from the beach to your house. 😂. It's a joke. I understood from your explanation that it is not the case.

[@edtuckerartist]

Wonders if a dog walks off the beach with a stone could they then prosecute the dogs owner for stealing said stone?

[@Shenorai]

@@AtomicShrimp As ever; if there is a law that seems unusual, there is a good chance it's because someone has already done exactly that thing and they want to prevent repeat offenses. Take Detroit, Michigan for example. It's illegal to tie your pet alligator to a fire hydrant.

[@Moewenfels]

Guy walking around the world looking at things and going "ooohhh, aaaah!" is my favorite content.

[@marylynne9104]

It never fails to delight me that a man of…um…middle…years can still have retained a childlike wonder and curiosity about the things around him without being at all childish. We should all strive to achieve that.

[@AtomicShrimp]

To paraphrase Keith Johnstone: Many people think of children as immature adults; it may be lead to better outcomes if we think of adults as _atrophied children._

[@Moewenfels]

AB-SO-LUTELY!

[@Thestrangepinkpie]

small boy energy in its most positive form!

[@NathanSorensen-qd6kc]

I appreciate this about atomic shrimp as well. It's very refreshing

[@beliarioc9472]

I'm glad that Eva is so heroically saving rocks from drowning.

[@applegal3058]

She's a lifesaver, really! 😂

[@VultureSkins]

She works so tirelessly for the good of all rock-kind!

[@Fairyfink]

In a future video, Mike has an unfortunate mishap on a gravel beach and is saved by a grateful sponge, which turns out to be the very one he returned to the sea years earlier....

[@MyBoomStick1]

He’s able to scrub his bum clean with said sponge?

[@dees3179]

I used to love walking on beaches but my joints are too unstable now. Thanks for taking us along. I missed that crunching sound.

[@seasmacfarlane6418]

It's blowing a hooley and snowing here on Skye, so I am off to the beach with Mr Shrimp. I've prepared dinner which is simmering deliciously in the kitchen, (lamb tagine) I have my warm, snuggly jumper on, and my cup of tea to hand. My life is complete.😊❤

[@gigi3242]

Thank you for the video, for possibly saving the sponge, for encouraging Eva as she dips her toes in the water. Your little island has some incredibly beautiful places, thank you for sharing them with us.

[@Veezyjung]

Incidentally, Budleigh Salterton is a fantastic name for an English butler.

[@jonathanrichards593]

I had a colleague once who observed that Wiltshire is littered with places that have great names for country & western singers. I give you Milton Lilbourne on banjo, Vernham Dean on mandolin, Christian Milford on guitar, and Farleigh Wick on fiddle. Take it away, boys!

[@kmay8709]

Your videos are so relaxing Mike. I lost my dog on Monday and the only time i have been able to take my mind off things and try to relax is watching you exploring or trying silly recipes or ideas. Thank you

[@BaggieReg63]

'I could eat a pie right now'... constant voice in my head.

[@chucky2316]

Lmao steak and ale for me good sir

[@BaggieReg63]

Probably steak and kiddly for me, but pretty much anything wrapped in pastry will suffice.

[@Dusterisp]

Some of those rocks look delicious Edit: there's something called a _pudding stone?_ Dear random people from centuries ago: thank you for setting up such a delightful pun.

[@VultureSkins]

@@Dusterisp that one got my mouth watering a little 😅 plus his comment about the shells looking like a pie crust? It’s got me ready for lunch

[@paadoxal]

happy saturday everyone:+) love seeing stones from other parts of the world

[@mandym2808]

Hello. Happy Saturday to you too. From Hertfordshire UK

[@heikesiegl2640]

Happy saturday from Bavaria :D

[@rovcanada1]

Happy Saturday from British Columbia. I'm an avid rockhounder, so just slap the cuffs on me if I get within 10 miles of Budleigh beach!

[@audieswatchingthis]

I can listen to you all day talking about rocks, especially if Jenny and Eva are joining you. Watching Eva save rocks made me smile 😊😊😊😊

[@TakeWalker]

oh to just be a guy on the beach picking up rocks and going, "Ooh! Ahh!"

[@thebeekeepers7170]

This was excellent. Thank you for recording this video.

[@VultureSkins]

I love these beach-ambling rock-looking videos, especially now that it’s snowing where I am. Usually snow comes earlier here (often we get a bit on Halloween), but not this year. The wind has been bitterly cold for a while, though, so imagining myself taking a walk by a river or lake (no oceans or seas in the Midwest U.S.) also involves imagining a lot of layers

[@tabriff3832]

Re Thumbnail. Humerously, lower - black pudding. Majestically, middle - Jupiter. Exquisitely, upper - a Japanese landscape print.

[@MamguSian]

Has Eva ever swallowed a stone? It might seem like a silly question but a friend of mine was once puzzled by a strange clinking sound she heard occasionally and finally narrowed it down to her dog! The vet had to operate on the kitchen table to remove a load of stones she'd swallowed!

[@AtomicShrimp]

No, but she does seem to ingest a bit of sand when she digs and picks up stones on sandy beaches (the next morning she poops little sandcastles). I do worry about her teeth a bit, but picking up stones was her idea in the first place, and she is quite delicate about it.

[@Leanne_w]

Wow, I’m glad your friend noticed.my dog like to eat carrier bags, like the poo bag type. But she won’t try and eat a 10p bag.It’s weird how dogs will eat random things. But she wouldn’t eat rocks. I make sure none of the bags ate even in reach of her, she will also try to eat on one those cheap white non liners, but yet won’t go near a black bin bag.

[@sarahstrong7174]

It is probably O.K. when my friends child was a baby, her doctor did not seem too worried about sand​ eating, but of course the sea around South Devon is terribly polluted now. @@AtomicShrimp

[@AtomicShrimp]

She's never (to my knowledge) swallowed any sizeable stone, but in her enthusiastic digging on more sandy beaches, she has been known to ingest a fair bit of sand, and poop out little sandcastles the following day.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Torcross has nice pebbles too.

[@Henri11111]

Recently noticed that Mange Tout (from your scambaiting videos) is "man get out" with different spaces. Your comedic genius continues to surprise me.

[@SquareOrbits]

Oo those books look really interesting - if you're still looking for ideas for your advent calendar series, I know I'd certainly enjoy you rambling about some of your favourite books, can't get more cosy than a book! :)

[@VultureSkins]

I second that!

[@Cinnamon_Shaey]

awww Eva is having a field day with all of these stones around

[@phronsiekeys]

Nauset Beach, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, has many similar sorts of rocks--the story is that they were left behind when the glaciers receded, I think. I'm partial to the kind you show at 1:32, which I have found in both white and black versions. They remind me of Go game pieces. We're not supposed to take rocks home either from our public beaches, and I'm pretty good about that, except when I find absolutely perfect examples of those!

[@mangojack1]

Great videos, much enjoyed glad to have found Your channel! cheers 👍

[@shiori510]

I love mottled rocks, it's so much fun to explore what they're made of! The stripey ones are great, they vary in shade so much! Love that you aren't worried about exploring in what many Englishmen just would overlook, not everything is always visible through a window.

[@chezmoi42]

17:00 That is indeed a beautiful stone, almost looks as if it had been painted. I'd been thinking that I'd bring along a white board and do a series of 'rock portraits' to serve as a souvenir. It would make a lovely series of framed prints, which could also be bound as a handmade book or made into a calendar for gifts. You'll have to check Eva's squirrel cheeks for contraband as you leave these tempting rocky beaches. Bravo, Budleigh, for the explanatory panels about the Triassic rhizocretions! I've never heard of that phenomenon before, but I'm not much on geology. Thanks so much for sharing your visit with us.

[@robshaw6248]

I spy the Kon tiki expedition book at the end :) brings back memories of me and my dad reading it when I was young. Fabulous adventure book

[@thomaskloos6409]

Subhanallah, to see you respect this world and everything in it brings hope and warmth to a cold heart

[@saidchammas]

12:34 Mike's mentally never recovering from the Chesil beach rock survery

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

That was a lovely video - interesting, informative and relaxing. Thank you!

[@janecraftswhen...8115]

Across the water here in guernsey, about to walk the dog on the beach. Will enjoy inspecting and comparing pebbles.Thank you for sharing

[@markodarko-z2m]

Your musing at 16:10 about the shell of the edible crab is not uncommon! In the South-West we call them Pasty Crabs!

[@madcatjo]

11:47 Quartzite (greenish hue and red banding due to mineral impurities in the original sandstone- clays, mica, etc).

[@agolftwittler1223]

Gorgeous.

[@Jim-gz2bz]

Is it the iPad I’m watching it on or is the wide shots of all the stones colour saturation weird like waves of colour going through them?

[@anonuser9367]

Same on my phone, dont take my word for it but I believe it might be YT video compression that causes this. Sometimes mikes beach walks can look pretty surreal almost like a painting or cartoon as the definition is lost, some sort of averaging going on.

[@Tim.Weaver]

Same on my laptop and TV., so it's not your device. It's a bit disconcerting, but quite pretty though.

[@kimbledunster]

Yes, some sort of arefeact there.

[@Jim-gz2bz]

Quite trippy

[@Jim-gz2bz]

@@Tim.Weaver yes very trippy

[@graythelion]

As a resident of Derbyshire, I am linguistically obliged to call them 'cobs' rather than 'buns' - luckily disagreements over the subject are rare, as Derbyshire has very few beaches...

[@samhenwood5746]

Eva the rock saver, plus she must be in doggy heaven,with all those stones 😊🐾Thanks for sharing Atomic shrimp 🦐🤗

[@G.L.McCarthy-vr1oe]

Love me some rocks!💜

[@kimbledunster]

The name "bun" can be applied to all sorts of edibles - savoury, sweet or neutral; bready, cakey or doughy. Perhaps not as omnipotent as "pudding" but still...

[@pennykafai4645]

Some beautiful rocks, I would find it difficult to to leave them on the beach but do understand why we should.

[@madcatjo]

3:15 I'm not familiar with the geology of the area, but just looking at it I'd guess that it's amygdaloidal basalt. The basalt would have had holes (vesicles) created as gas was trapped in it as it cooled and solidified. Over time the vesicles can be filled with other minerals (eg calcite, quartz, etc) carried in solution.

[@madcatjo]

5:05 Probably a breccia: note the jagged outline of the ?basalt pieces in the white. This looks like the area where these rocks are from had repeated explosive volcanic eruptions with lavas of different chemistries?

[@charlie125125uk]

Seagulls are to blame for the crabs for once we can’t blame mankind lol

[@markthomas808]

I was on Budleigh beach this morning - a very different view today, with massive red/brown breakers crashing in due to Storm Bert.

[@SimonPain]

We always clap along to the intro 😁

[@Leanne_w]

Yay a video from Mike while eating my breakfast this morning! 🤍,

[@chucky2316]

Leanne we ❤you

[@Vicki_Benji]

Look at all those stones, Eva! You must be in doggy heaven! 🐾

[@tonyinit8488]

Looks like black pudding !!

[@madcatjo]

10:13 "Quartz crystals in the form of sand that has been compacted together" is sandstone. It can be 100% quartz grains, or have other minerals (clays, hematitte, etc) in the matrices between the quartz grains. Sandstone that is subjected to increased temperature and or pressure such that the quartz recrystallises is quartzite. Polycrystalline quartz is quartz made up of interlocking crystals...an example of this form of quartz is quartzite.

[@madcatjo]

6:09 Quartzite!

[@OGKenG]

Steer clear of the jellyfish, but the peanut butterfish are delightful. 😏

[@islimpycat]

I live for this kind of video

[@bytesabre]

We have a beach party there every year, as part of a computer art festival called Nova, that includes a floppy disc throwing competition, so interesting to see the place outside of this context :)

[@personnel5428]

lovely

[@deejayk5939]

The buns look so soothing to handle!😅

[@ShellyS2060]

You can call it a beach, Eva calls it the "most interesting place on earth" 💜

[@chucky2316]

The red is from a once desert. You get alot of it in torbay aswell, basically we live on a once desert many years ago hence the red rich soil

[@madcatjo]

13:02 Some sort of metamorphic rock with quartz veins, such as serpentinized basalt? Would explain why it's so heavy, and "a dark rock with quartz veins".

[@ares395]

Maybe it's because I'm autistic but I love rocks. I'd be incredibly sad leaving this beach but sadness is not bad. It indicates that you've experienced something good that you miss. It's a good reminder that there's still something that matters to you. There's a profound beauty in fleeting things. We desperately want to hold on to good things, especially when our world turns bleak, but sometimes the magic is in the temporary. As a depressed person, thinking of it this way makes me feel just a little bit better

[@madcatjo]

10:05 OR it could be a really low grade quartzite.... It doesn't take much temperature/pressure for quartz to recrystallise.

[@Moewenfels]

25:35 i wonder how many content ideas you came up with after visiting that antique shop.

[@ghostladydarkling3250]

I love rocks, but I have decided to just let them lay, I have some many, it's time for me to just look and enjoy, but leave them to go doing their thing in nature. That chirping sound from walking by on the rocks was "cool beans". ( my brothers favorite saying when we where teens).

[@mattwuk]

As a Northern visitor, maybe only going there once in my lifetime, I'd definitely take one stone for a memory

[@MsAnpassad]

I was half expecting you to bring some home and then try to recreate them in the kitchen.

[@artistknownaslisa2850]

Lol

[@madcatjo]

17:21 They look like shards of other rocks/minerals = breccia. Could it be brecciated obsidian?

[@motorhead3537]

The down votes here tell me something about human nature. Thank you once again for taking me somewhere I will never get to physically travel to from the other side of the planet. Much appreciated.

[@17Blower]

I live about 10 miles from this beach and have been there many times, It's good to see your comment and strange to think that what i take for granted is some one else's elusive destination. I'm sure there are places near you that I would think the same about.

[@styxdragoncharon4003]

There is a beach in Hawaii where the sand is just made of peridot...

[@BluejuiceT4]

Noticed you didn’t go up the 'clothing optional' end of the beach!

[@madcatjo]

9:55 Given that you've got quartzite which can be created by both contact AND regional metamorphism, I'm going to say that I have no idea. 🤪 It's hard enough tying to identify rocks without holding them in your hands, but even when you do and also look at thin sections under a microscope,, identifying metamorphic rocks is really difficult. 🤣

[@firstname4337]

that's got to be difficult to walk on

[@permaculturee]

When I see sparkly dots, I usually think 'Mica'.

[@Deirdre-v7r]

In California we have a beach entirely made of glass..it is so pretty.

[@CounterCultureWISE]

You'd think it would go the other way; that all those rocks would be beaten into sand, rather than sand smushed into rocks.

[@tangothecat237]

You can buy peebles at garden centres. Where do they get these from?

[@broshmosh]

Probably industrial quarries.

[@eclipsedbadger]

​@@broshmosh yes, industrial quarries. In Argentina we have those just for the nice pebbles. Also the UK imports a lot of things, being an island, so it can perfectly be from Spain, Portugal or France's quarries when you see pebbles at the garden center.

[@rowejon]

I'm a great fan of beautiful buns 😁

[@Dazzwidd]

That's amazingly coarse sand you have there 😅 I have never seen beaches like this ever

[@chucky2316]

That's not sand it's a pebble beach

[@Dazzwidd]

@chucky2316 Are you sure I'm not aware of this fact?

[@countesscable]

@@Dazzwiddin UK, we have beaches going from fine sand, to stones with all gradations in between, but only fine sand is referred to as ‘sand’. Everything else is called, gravelly, rocky, stony, pebbley etc.

[@quantumfoam2843]

Man, I would so come home with a fine if I visited that beach!

[@madcatjo]

9:13 Rhyolite

[@scetchyghost5464]

Something interesting I noticed is how red the water actually seems. Around where I am the water is much greener. You mention how theres a lot of iron around, im wondering how much iron is dissolved in the water if you took a cup of water and threw it in a centrifuge or something…

[@littlespinycactus]

In my defence, your Honour, that charming brecciated bun labelled exhibit A snuck into my pocket when I was looking the other way

[@PyraThePooch]

Rocks! :D

[@RolandTHX]

Came for the scambaiting, stayed for the cool rock examination.

[@mrshannonite4016]

I know I'm going to regret saying this to another man... Nice buns.

[@artistknownaslisa2850]

😂

[@andrewcoates6641]

Mike, it makes me wonder if the law has been made to originally prohibit people from taking bags of pebbles in large quantities to do landscaping in gardens but the law has become over applied to the point of prohibiting people from taking just one pebble as a keepsake. To paraphrase it’s a law that is being applied to prevent someone from using a sledgehammer to get a peanut out of its shell.

[@FayeVert]

When millions of visitors each year each take a pebble (and the most beautiful, colorful ones at that) it does add up. Glass Beach in California had to make it illegal to remove seaglass, and at the Petrified Forest National Park they actually search everyone's car on the way out, leading to large piles of abandoned "souvenirs" just before the checkpoints.

[@NathanSorensen-qd6kc]

I had a question, I was curious and maybe wanting to try one of those 1 pound for 1 day food challenges. I live in the US and I'm not sure what the conversion would be. Nowadays it seems like it'd be 5 bucks for 1 day due to the costs of things, but I figured I'd ask and perhaps someone has this figured out already. I live in boise Idaho just for reference. Thanks, Nathan. Also, I really enjoy your videos atomic shrimp. I watch them off and on but they are always relaxing and an easy thing to return to.

[@lindastone6868]

Did you hear the one about the Irish Jellyfish? It can be found in the sea around Ireland.

[@SheyD78]

Interesting, that rock from about 8 minutes in or so looks like a passable imitation of the Sardion from David Eddings' Malorian pentalogy. Milky quartz with redish bands.

[@DaSlotho]

Like most people i my self wounder if John Barosa will grace us with a 😂😂😂 n a 😅😅😅 or 2... Hehehe Another great vid. Thanks Boss

[@alandwells]

@6:10 Hot Cross Bun!

[@BellaRainDrops]

Question Mike, we watch your content mostly on You tube on the Telly but we aren't signed into it so we cant like or comment, does us watching on the telly like that count the same as if we had watched on a logged in account ? to you I mean. I always log on my desktop and like your vids and play them again in case you don't get the recognition from us watching on the telly ..... I'm not sure if this makes sense now lol hope you understand what I mean.

[@AtomicShrimp]

It probably won't count in terms of the algorithm learning about the sorts of videos you like to watch, but if you're seeing ads before the video, then it counts in terms of the revenue that pays my bills. Honestly, I don't mind anyway, as long as you're enjoying it!

[@BellaRainDrops]

@@AtomicShrimp That's good to know, yes we always let the ads play and appreciate your lack of Mid roll ads. REEEEEALLY looking forward to December content every day cannot wait !

[@damedavidfrith55]

He found sponge bob 😊

[@Rainbowofthefallen]

Just commenting for the algorithm 💚

[@chrism2135]

Black pudding, pig in blanket and a baked potato.

[@Jimatkins3271]

Budleigh buns also has another meaning on this beach 😉😉😂

[@girder123]

So, you need to train Eva to retrieve stones from the beach and come back to you in the getaway car? Seriously though, that's a beautiful beach for wandering around.

[@ryangooch6701]

I think you would be interested in a Japanese Dorodango ball !!

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

... and I'm just a cat, looking at a guy going ooo aaah, while myself going hmmmm 🤔this is indeed a nice rock!

[@Dunkelwald_]

What? You are not a geologist? Next thing you are gonna tell me is that you are neither a herbalist nor a cook. Or a wood carver. Or ...

[@Graham_Rule]

Did you check that Eva didn't sneak away (rescue) one of the buns?

[@AvidCanineEnjoyer]

rocks…cool…yes.

[@chucky2316]

Ashes to ashes dust to dust