Islands on Foot: Pewit Island Revisited (We Got There This Time!)

I previously tried to visit Pewit Island in Portsmouth Harbour, on foot, but turned back because of inadequate footwear. Let's try that again, with better boots...
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[@Charky_Creations]

"little shrimpy things" would be a great name for those videos where you cram a bunch of smaller, shorter videos together.

[@Kermitthebadger]

can I just say, I really appreciate that the audio is so clear even though the wind was obviously blowing very hard

[@basilbrush9075]

I need to know his secrets

[@francescaknightYT]

It was lovely to see Jenny and put a face to the voice ☺️ love watching your videos, especially anything foody, love the challenge videos and seeing what you make, and little eva ☺️

[@Lisa-uj2ss]

Eva's a beaut 😍

[@tricky2917]

I wanted to thank you. Electricity prices have gone through the roof in Norway, thanks to the current crisis plus an over reliance on hydro during a drought. But thankfully I remembered your video on cooking food in a thermos bottle and now I'm saving roughly four pounds per dinner on electricity. 👍

[@rogink]

Never mind going through the roof - leccy prices in UK have gone into the stratosphere! My monthly bill was around 50 quid 2 years ago, now it's £120!

[@SUM1SLY83]

@@rogink lucky you, we’ve been told ours is going upto £300+ wouldn’t mind but we have solar panels and are adding power in the grid then get charged much higher than we sell ours to the energy companies to get it back 🤬

[@tylerdejong6930]

What recipes are you cooking, Tricky?

[@tricky2917]

@@tylerdejong6930 I'm using three thermos bottles to cook dinner for my family. One is dedicated for rice or pasta, the other two I used to cook different stews. Everyone is loving curry at the moment, so there has been a bit more of that lately.

[@tylerdejong6930]

@@tricky2917 awesome to hear thars working for you!

[@JamCamel]

I'd love to know how Mr Shrimp retains all this esoteric knowledge. It's marvellous.

[@MrWylis]

Just a lifetime of being an awesome dude.

[@SirEnVo]

100k to go Shrimp! Mike, you bring me no end of entertainment at my job barbering when I get a quiet patch or something to watch once I kick my feet up in the evening. You deserve a million. You deserve a billion. Thank you 💙

[@2lefThumbs]

If only he could fill bald patches tho, eh?😉

[@thenameless3271]

Well that's rude

[@2lefThumbs]

@@thenameless3271 really? I'm bald and not at all offended

[@thenameless3271]

Your not being offended doesn't negate anyone else's feelings. I'm not offended, and I doubt Mr. Shrimp would be, I just thought it was a rude comment to leave on such a nice one. Seems I've misread your intentions, best wishes 2LT.

[@bittehiereinfugen7723]

As an adult, when I wore wellie boots again after a very long time, I immediately felt transported back to my childhood. For me, wearing wellies is associated with the memory of long spring or autumn days, wet, fragrant meadows and the absolute feeling of freedom. Thank you for taking us on this beautiful trip and congratulations on 900k!

[@k8eekatt]

Thank you for sharing your lovely memories.

[@m.g.540]

With wellies as a child you could go anywhere, and your mum was ok with it.

[@bittehiereinfugen7723]

@@m.g.540 Yes! And when you came home, your trouser pockets had to be full of treasures, such as pretty stones, acorns or earthworms 😁

[@mermeridian2041]

As an inland, land-locked creature, I love these treks to and around islands actual and 'almost'. Estuaries and tidal wetlands are more interesting than I'd thought and I appreciate that you pick up what trash you can find and dispose of it properly.

[@explosivelybrilliant]

"How about we don't put plastic in the ocean?" -- You know Mr. Shrimp, I think you might be onto something, there...

[@2lefThumbs]

God knows what he thinks wellies are made of in that case!

[@ricos1497]

​@@2lefThumbs rubber?

[@2lefThumbs]

@@ricos1497 that's what big wellie *want* you to think, sure!

[@ricos1497]

@@2lefThumbs I live next to the wellie factory, and at night we hear the screams of baby otters as their skin is peeled off for making the inner lining of the boot. Even when the screams stop - their vocal chords are removed for use in the neighbouring lace factory - you can still hear the noise in your head. It never leaves you. My little girl lies in bed listening to it and asks when it'll stop. When all the otters are dead, I tell her. When they're dead.

[@dionlindsay2]

@@ricos1497 😅😅

[@vikitoruss]

The most anticipated sequel ever

[@fhwolthuis]

Mr Shrimp is the only guy who can pull off wearing camo shorts and duvet shirt 😁👍🏻👍🏻

[@arthuredeson3824]

A track leading to Pewit Island is shown on the first internet available OS map of the area (surveyed in 1856 and published in 1870) and in subsequent OS maps until the 1931 map, on which no track or path is shown. No track is shown on a map I found from 1797, so I don't think there was a railway to the island, and it sheds doubt on that causeway being medieval or Roman.

[@kimvibk9242]

Nice video as always, thanks! I like how you don't shrink away from showing your fails (first attempt) but make an effort to make it better next time. Oh, and nice to see Jenny in frame (instead of just a disembodied hand or leg at the edge) - what a lovely lady!

[@AtomicShrimp]

Failure is very often a richer experience than success. I'm growing to like it (which is fortunate, since it happens a lot)

[@kimvibk9242]

@@AtomicShrimp 😆

[@hannahjohansson1292]

I really appreciate how varied yet consistent your channel is!

[@annaapple7452]

The "almost islands" of 4:15 are tussocks of Spartina (I think S. anglica), definitely not seagrass. They are salt-marsh pioneer plants just as marsh samphire, but are much better in catching sediment, and are perennial. So when the plants establish, they build up the surface level and thereby improve their own living conditions. The whole "foreshore" of the island you were walking on consisted of lots of these tussocks grown together. So far it looks as if (almost) the entire island consist of salt-marsh vegetation, and could thus per definition be classified as wetland.

[@bzztbzztboy]

++ Seagrass grows in the water just fine, saying it's dry enough for them to grow sounded strange to me.

[@annaapple7452]

@@bzztbzztboy it is not seagrass. At all. It is spartina anglica (cordgrass) which can tolerate a certain amount of inundation/hydrodynamics, but does not grow in permanently submerged places. It has a lower limit on the intertidal flats where it can grow. But it grows better in conditions just a little less often underwater than that lower limit. By the way, the downside of that building up of sediment is that when the soil gets high enough with time, other plant species will start to grow there and outcompete the cordgrass.

[@bzztbzztboy]

@@annaapple7452 Yup, I'm aware. Just pointing out that in the video he said that the place was "dry enough for seagrass to grow", which sounded strange to me.

[@Kyle-McGough]

The feather at 14:48 looks like a peregrine falcon feather to me. Just had one land in our backyard and drop a couple recently. A quick Google search suggests that they do live and hunt in that area.

[@muntyvalera998]

One of them had nested on the roof of a cathedral in Leicester where I'm from and it died and LROS (Leicester and Rutland Ornithological Society) reckon it may have been bird flu, fingers crossed it isn't or alot of our birds will be dying out.

[@falcon2287]

It is a secondary wing feather, likely from a peregrine. A little atypical shape, but wear can do that. It helps a lot to identify feathers if you get a masurement end to end.

[@numberg8238]

It's a curlew feather

[@camo2156]

@@numberg8238 oh yes of course, id agree with that- nice one

[@kevinmartin7760]

You should have brought your walking stick to probe the surface in the sketchier areas. It looks like the gravel track has one low stretch overrun by mud. Although paper and natrual-fibre cloth bags may take more resources to make than plastic bags, they will never turn into microplastics, instead turning into compost.

[@pennykafai9601]

Can I just say thank you for clearing up other peoples rubbish! It infuriates beyond ! Love you content.

[@BonnibelLecter]

Glad you got to complete the journey! Hope it was a nice one. I’m looking forward to more island videos. I live in an extremely landlocked part of the US these days and miss the ocean, so it’s a nice vicarious experience. Also, not the point, but on the plastic v paper bag debate, there’s one thing paper does have even if it’s similar environmental cost: it decays instead of winding up floating free in the ocean to be gobbled up by turtles or strangle seabirds. But truly, I don’t see what’s wrong with asking people to just reuse their reusable shopping bags indefinitely. It’s not as if they need to be fashionable and change with the seasons.

[@xxPenjoxx]

Your due diligence and care is, as always, heartening to see. Thank you for taking us along on your journey with Josh and Jenny.

[@Petrelles22]

As ever, i enjoyed your video. It was nice meeting Jenny and Josh. Oysters are being re-introduced in the solent so it can't be the harbour can't be that poluted.

[@strayling1]

Nice vanishing trick at 15:56 "Beam me back to the shore, Scotty!"

[@SilverDragonJay]

Might not have been anything there, but this still seemed like a nice adventure. Plus you had the opportunity to clean up, which is always a nice thing to do even if the impact is small.

[@SamTheBattleshipp]

This was a great video! That was really nice of you to pick up that trash while showing us around. Very epic! I loved getting to see the footpath and cart trails, and hearing about some of the different facts regarding the island. (I love history and nature)

[@johanneswerner1140]

After having done that twice in the local woods, my kids now insist we bring a rubbish bag when we are going for a stroll/explore the woods...

[@nicolakibble]

❤️I was surprised, but pleased to hear that Jenny came along ❤️❤️❤️ Edit - hi Josh 👋

[@4StringNinja]

Hi 👋

[@__-bk6mm]

Hi Jenny and Josh hope you all had a lovely walk :)

[@Sh0ckmaster]

Mike you're a good egg for picking up that litter. I've begun doing this myself once a week as I was fed up with all the litter I kept seeing in the nearby woods while walking my dogs. Thanks for another great video!

[@JanWritesMG]

Thank You! I'm writing a story inspired by discovering Pewit Island's existence, so this was really helpful.

[@aquatics117]

I have been going through a hard time, sometimes it's these types of videos that get me through the day and help me get my shoes on and go outside and explore.

[@Korea4Me]

Nice to see Jenny's smiling face xx

[@CruzaComplex]

3:00 @AtomicShrimp Good eye! I do want to point out though that carts drawn by draft animals don't leave two sets of tire tracks. They leave three or four depending on the arrangement of draft animal. E.G: You would have two tire tracks *and* a third groove in the middle where the horse walked. The center groove on old tracks tends to be more weighted toward the center wearing out as well, since a man on a horse is more common than a man with a cart pulled by a horse, and people without horses also walk in the center of roads, not to one side. Lindybeige has a good video about this somewhere on his channel where he picks apart a film set. Two-track treads are basically always modern.

[@MargaretHall]

My suspicion would be that the faint wheel marks have been made by whichever warden is responsible for the nature reserve driving out occasionally in a 4x4 to do work there.

[@PlanetZhooZhoo]

Great to see it, thank you! I'd imagined it had taller vegetation like Barrow. Good to see Jenny and Josh too.

[@jenniferbennett2781]

Barn owl feather...if it's soft and velvety it's definitely from an owl. Enjoyed this episode.

[@chrisbelcher4843]

If you ever fancy heading north then Piel Island is walkable. There's a pub who's landlord is king of the island and also the ruins of an old castle. Lovely place!

[@mikehawes4935]

Thank you for litter picking, I don't normally comment as we watch via a TV Box , but I logged on my PC to say THANK YOU for doing this vital work, much needed. Get a bag ring and picker , its marvellous exercise and very rewarding.

[@Cavy.]

Really love your food-themed and nature-themed contents. A good company for my meals.

[@taggat]

I'm from California but still any time I see an old track way I still think of Mick Aston "I think it's ritual Tony, It might be a processional way"

[@robchissy]

and in 3 million years time, they find mr shrimps foot prints in the mud and start to make up what they think he was doing and somewhere they find this video and know he was a good man

[@luckysmummy5325]

"It would have been misadventurous to do so." I just really love listening to your turn of phrase. Thanks Mr Shrimp. PS. I wash & reuse plastic bags. Especially 'Bags for Life'; I think I take the name literally, as if it's an instruction. You can also keep them going with judicious applications of sticky tape from time to time.

[@acleedsunited]

Really well done on cleaning up other people's litter. Brilliant of you.

[@alexandrastevens8892]

What a great walk and lovely to see Jenny with you and friend. I really do appreciate the fact that your not putting the camera down and walking then obviously having to go back and collect it. Just take us for a walk nothing fancy. Being disabled I really appreciate it 😌

[@WaddedBliss]

Oh, but how dreadful! You mean you've been up here in all this beastly mud and oomska without wellingtons? Now you have some good quality rrrrrrrubber boots.

[@AtomicShrimp]

We need cake and fine wines!

[@bittehiereinfugen7723]

Oh, and because you mentioned washing out plastic bags: I actually learned from one (or more) of your videos to wash and store the plastic bags from things like frozen vegetables or pre-baked buns - thank you for this learning experience. I now always have nice big plastic bags in stock for free, which is really practical. And it really reduces the consumption of "new" plastic quite a bit. And finally my husband is also convinced (also through your videos) that it is not strange to store empty plastic cans but that it is more like "free Tupperware" or some other cost-neutral storage option.

[@pixie706]

I'm glad you had a backup crew..just in case. No sign of birds flying about was there

[@tonettalover]

Best channel to watch when you just want to sit back and relax but also learn something ❤️

[@workaholica]

Thanks for taking us, this sort of virtual walk is almost therapeutic.

[@jennigee51]

You're amazing, I'm sure there aren't many people who would think to pick up rubbish! Or even think it's WORTH picking up!

[@LastofAvari]

Thanks for sharing you trip, Mike! This kinda place, that is quite close, but still taking quite an effort to reach, is pretty interesting.

[@Simonicusmaximus]

Great video and good job on cleaning up the plastic and litter! I love watching your videos I love Learning about the plants and wildlife keep up the good work!

[@brianartillery]

I'd be so tempted to cut some of that Glasswort/Marsh Samphire. It's one of my favourite vegetables. I've gathered it from the foreshores of the Orwell and Stour - both busy rivers, and it was perfectly good to eat. I've also had Sea Purslane (Sesuvium portulocastrum) from near the old gun emplacement at Bawdsey, and enjoyed that, too. Great video, as always. I love seeing the odd corners of this country. You're an extremely good guide. Thank you.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Rock Samphire is very nice smoked on a barbecue. Different & much better than boiled.

[@brianartillery]

@@sarahstrong7174 I like it raw in sandwiches, or steamed and served with melted butter. Rock Samphire (Crithmum maritimum) is a 'Marmite' plant. You either love it, or hate it. The resinous taste is quite shocking if you're not expecting it. I like it, but it took several goes to do so. It doesn't grow near my home, as we have no rocky cliffs in Suffolk. We do have Glasswort, though, and I could eat that until it came out of my ears.

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@brianartillery I found that barbecueing the the Rock Samphire significantly reduces that resinous taste which I do not like. For me it becomes edible & enjoyable when barbecued.

[@criminalscum6075]

I just came across your channel about a week ago and i must say i have enjoyed watching a lot of your videos! great down to earth content. greetings from Denmark. Peter. 25

[@barbaradionne7768]

Mr. Shrimp, fascinating as usual. I will never get tired of your varied adventures. Please carry on! 😊🇨🇦

[@PuchMaxi]

Hey Shrimp, congrats on 900K subscribers!

[@dionlindsay2]

Great video. I like "misadventurous": more interesting than "dangerous". Time to revive it 🙂

[@AtomicShrimp]

Danger is often only dangerous to the adverturer who is misadventurous!

[@eugenetswong]

Atomic, thanks so much for this experience, the litter pickup, and the sound quality. I don't think that we have a place like that in my city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. So, being able to watch your experience is valuable. As for litter, over a month ago, I picked up a bunch for an hour in the city where I grew up. So, your fans are making a small impact. Have a great weekend.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Thankyou for the little guided tour. My CFS is very bad at present so it is very nice to have a walk by proxy. I enjoyed seeing the plants & shells.

[@devttyUSB0]

Thanks for cleaning up the seas, it's just a little bit, but every little bit helps.

[@elcapitanotim214]

so wholesome love this channel

[@thenorseguy2495]

I love these videos. I hope you’ll have a nice weekend

[@Bodomi]

Great to see you put in that effort to pick up all trash you find. I started doing that about 3-4 years ago, always bring a bag with me when I go on walks/trips.

[@psychedelikchameleon]

Quite an ancient path but nobody knows foreshore

[@silva7493]

What a special place. I just learned of the gorgeous ground nesting Pewit, so thank you very much.

[@richardmillican7733]

"I can see lots of shrimpy things....." imagine how they feel on meeting shrimpy God lol!

[@godslittlestidiot2984]

I loved this video! I really enjoy the walking videos you do. It's super interesting to see these islands as well. How long (miles or hours, or both) do you generally take for these excursions? With the power of editing, it seems such a short walk but I'm sure you're out there for an hour or more.

[@AjiNoPanda]

I absolutely love this series. Husband and I will be visiting the UK in the next few years and this is convincing me to head for a long stay in southern England! (After visiting Yorkshire first...pilgrimage to Herriot Country.) I've always wondered...does Jenny (and your other family and friends, like Josh) watch your videos and read your comment section?

[@4StringNinja]

Can't speak for Jenny, but I certainly do 👍

[@EduardoVidalSalgadoFajardo]

Lovely walk in the desert valley of the purgatory 🤣 Oddly entertaining as always Mr Shrimp, nice.

[@basilbrush9075]

Big respect to Jenny for overcoming the camera shyness! Now I'm curious about if there are any tidal islands in Manchester

[@seannethecloud]

I really love these videos! They are like little adventure videos. We need more :)

[@nancycurtis7315]

Wonderful video. What a stunning area. I was a bit disappointed by the amount of rubbish that people have left behind, but beautiful people have followed them and took responsibility for proper disposal. The wildlife thanks you. Now, more creatures have the opportunity to live. People like yourself are a credit to the human race. Greetings from Dimboola in Victoria, Australia.

[@flashylite]

I'm sure a lot of that rubbish has blown/floated there from elsewhere in the area. Still not an excuse, though.

[@nancycurtis7315]

@@flashylite Agreement with you on that one. I live in the "Little DESERT"region, in Victoria, Australia. A lot of plastic and stuff gets into the Wimmera river. Goes to an inward flowing river, to the largest natural lake in Victoria. Always some junk around the shoreline.

[@clayslays07]

Gotta love the atomic shrimp vids!!!

[@gerardmcquade]

its good of you to clean the place up while you are there

[@deejayk5939]

So nice to see Jenny, lovely and relaxing video

[@vwestlife]

Brilliant!

[@rogink]

Interesting that the elusive Jenny has appeared 'full frontal' - usually we get shots from behind or just hands. In a way I preferred the mystery. Did she have wellington boots? Josh didn't seem to be wearing them. Good spot on identifying the cart tracks - on what I seem to recall were called 'wades'. It's odd that even today the greenery is to the side of the track. To those asking about safety of shellfish in the harbour - not far away in Tipner there was a chemical works, and on Horsea Island there was a missile testing lake. Even if you ignore all the outfalls running into the harbour, there are probably all known deadly poisons buried in the mud in this area.

[@4StringNinja]

Very observant! For my part, I was wearing a pair of "amphibious" shoes - I had hoped to put on my wellies but I think they were "tidied" into the bin at some point without my knowledge... They did a good job of protecting my feet from any sneaky bits of ceramic and glass, but unfortunately let all of the estuary mud in - had to hose my feet off in the garden when I got home!

[@fhwolthuis]

Top video again, entertaining and educational 👏🏼❤️

[@moonraeshan]

I love this channel, gives me ICT teacher vibes.

[@beccy2188]

"By benefit of better boots" 🤣 got such a way with words!

[@kens3dandaquatics]

Thank you for sharing! Love to see your perspective

[@SiEffen]

Congratulations on the 900k subs!

[@uwulydia]

Loving this series!

[@inge6280]

Thanks for taking us on these adventures!

[@Wistful77]

Thank you! There won't be any condos out there anytime soon. Naturally beautiful!

[@danielflintknapping]

I've been looking forward to this one!

[@KCFreitag]

Enjoyed. Approved of the trash collecting. Agree with you about the wheel ruts.

[@k8eekatt]

Thank goodness for good boots! I live on the west coast of the US and if you want to try this here, check local conditions. I know Mr. Shrimp is very thorough checking safety conditions. Tourists risk life and limb on our coasts and sometimes they don't make it. A helicopter was dispatched for a German tourist who climbed too high on a cliff. We were calling to him to stop and come down but he would have none of it. He ended up having to cling there over night for hours as there wasn't a way could be safely reached until tide turned 😑He was able to return to his family at any rate!

[@johanneswerner1140]

There's those East Frisian islands in northern Germany. Some are in principle reachable by foot - though not without a guide. The mudflats are dangerous.

[@KerrikkiLurgan]

A few weeks back, my sister and I went to a local geopark. We went through the museum and down to the shore for the rock hounding. Because it is a protected site, we are not allowed to remove any of the rocks. It is a favourite place of ours. We were wandering the shore when the tide was out. There was a point when we got into the sticky muck. I nearly lost my footwear. When we got back to the museum, I noticed a sign advising us not to walk in the mud, as it is a source of food for the local birds, as well as migrating birds. It seems that they suck up the mud for the tiny crustaceans hidden in it.

[@bonitagoodwin5086]

I Love Jenny's participation in your exploratory walks! And now another friend. Keep an eye out that they don't start following you like they did Forrest Gump. Lol. Love your videos!!

[@bonitagoodwin5086]

I meant the Public joining you in mass.

[@flamecrystal7592]

congrats on 900k!!

[@onebackzach]

I did a bayou (an extremely slow moving river in the Southeast United States) cleanup, and amongst cans, bottles, and take-out containers, balls were among the most common items I pulled out of the bayou. I guess since they're round they roll away and don't tend to get caught up in things quite as easily. It'd be interesting to do an analysis of what kind of trash was picked up.

[@30matey]

i was hoping you would do this i could have watched forever and more i like the adventures you go on it was really interesting to see what was on the island and the plants and so forth i hope you do more of these type of adventures

[@arnoldmmbb]

So nice to see you cleaning a beautiful place I hate trash and littering so much

[@missy13d69]

A rare treat to see Jenny's lovely face!

[@lynnrose8957]

Thank you, That was interesting and you got there. Take care.

[@marie34K]

You even said " thank you " to Jenny when she put rubbish in the bag you were handing ....🤗

[@pambrown6260]

Picking up litter a good habit for all of us...and everyone pitched in! Thank goodness for plastic bags to collect it in.

[@date_fate_dave]

The sky is looking beautiful shrimp!

[@johandeklein5253]

enjoy these excursions, Thank you for sharing.

[@Locutus]

SciShow did a very good video about plastic bags, versus paper bags, versus cotton bags, etc. Their video is called The Greenest Grocery Bag.

[@christaylor4758]

Thanks, I just watched this fascinating video. It really is a complicated subject.

[@ferdisb4070]

"We don't put Plastic in the Ocean" Madness!

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

If you filmed this at the end of July (which I am not doubting) then you must have found the only clouds in Hampshire (if not the UK) on that day because the rest of us would have been part way through the 30 degree plus heat wave at that point, surely?

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yep. This was the one day that rain was forecast. I think three drops actually fell. Perhaps four.