Our 18th Century Swimming Pool is now home to a Mysterious Creature!

[@rebphil1254]

Please do a part 2 episode. Are the roads fixed? Did the beavers return? Did you find the turtle? Is Nestor still waiting and sitting on the edge of the pool? 😂

[@MappertonLive]

We will do a part 2

[@rachelpatten8889]

Nestor who is now as tall as Dad!

[@longwaytotipperary]

@@MappertonLiveyay!

[@CarolSilliman]

Loved the episode!! Boy is Nestor getting tall!! He reminds me of 2 of my nephews...6'5", blonde and wonderful young men. The pool looks great!

[@justice-jb5ld]

@@MappertonLive Great, I want to see the huge turtle.

[@carolinecorey6473]

Hilarious, more Nestor and Luke content please. 😂

[@dotwillcoxson5352]

The animals are looking wonderful and very healthy. Did Nestor catch the turtle? Interesting to see the hedgerow construction. Thank you from Australia.

[@fortunemickaellagenevievec8803]

Wow, all the animals look so healthy, happy and thriving. Congratulations Team Mapperton

[@elbruces]

"We don't want to get too close to Albi. Ben, want to head on back?" Ben: "Yeah, let's head on back." (WALKS DIRECTLY TOWARDS ALBI)

[@janmitchell641]

😂

[@kristiLB93]

Agreed, more Luke and Nester escapades!!

[@librarynan4610]

Exciting to see a foal born at Mapperton. Were the beavers ever found?

[@LadyDi_ATX]

That baby horse is so fluffy! I love her!🐴

[@goldenineke]

Welcome to the world dear little foal.

[@rosemariedeschenes7013]

Definitely need to know if Nestor is still at the pool and if the beavers have been found. Great drone shots and congrats on the new foul 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊So sorry about Onion 🥲

[@jo4vt]

😂 The Splurtle part was hilarious! It was fun to watch.

[@MsBeverlyTrca]

Is there a beaver update? Congratulations on your new foal.

[@MappertonLive]

We think we’ve spotted one. More soon!

[@LCamp-cr7fs]

What a cliffhanger! Is Nestor still sitting by the pool? Has the turtle been spotted? Was it captured? Was the net big enough? Inquiring minds want to know.

[@MappertonLive]

We will update you soon!

[@romaschild3]

Ya'll are doing such wonderful things at Mapperton. I was surprised you burned the wood instead of saving it for use in fireplaces or as fuel for boilers for radiated heat.

[@palomahealing5073]

Such a cute little Mapperton baby foal🩷

[@palomahealing5073]

What a beautiful existence for the Animals🩷 What grand Arial views, Luke!

[@marychrishannon7048]

Turtles do something called brumation in the winter. During brumation, turtles slow down their metabolism and use their butts as a way to breathe underwater.. It's possible that Nestor will be waiting a very long time.

[@taunyawren8020]

Sad to hear about Onion. Welcoming the new colt. Always enjoy watching you.

[@elisabeth6108]

Nestor has a wonderful sense of humor and a great personality! The foal is so shaggy and adorable. I want one!

[@harrietnelson6048]

Such a lovely family helping.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

Sorry about onion. Lovely to see the foal. Thanks for a fascinating channel.

[@patriciahadley2374]

A lovely episode full of beautiful nature and animals...except for three absent creatures which are for the moment keeping themselves well hidden away. Complimenti a questa bella famiglia! ♥

[@marciadarby3]

Congratulations on the new birth!

[@wdjones4735]

I’m sad you lost Onion🙁It’s never easy losing a fur family member. The new foal is a beauty❤️ I hope Nestor caught Spurtle🤣 Thank for sharing! I hope you all are having a nice weekend🤩

[@charlesgandy6970]

ACTUALLLLY, I LITTERLLLLY, ABSOLUTELLY, enjoy your videos....adicted! I am acutallllly litterlly overwhelmed at how many times in one episode those words are used. That said, I will ABSOLUTELLLY continue to watch!...I LITTERLLLY will!

[@melissaphillips3088]

Mapperton is alive and thriving!! Wished i could walk the grounds and take everything in . Just beautiful Julie , Luke and Nestor.👏🏻♥️

[@sakurapablo671]

Great to see things slowly taking shape now, since the last few months.

[@marytanne4964]

Thank you for the update on Mapperton Estate. Sorry to hear about the death of one of the pigs. Wonderful pictures of the pony and foe, pigs and piglets, and the estate. Hope the turtle has been found and the roads repaired. Glad to see Nestor again !

[@silva7493]

Apparently you've cleaned out the other pool as well. Did I miss a mention of it? Will there be floating plant treatment centers for it, also? I really love the pools. I'd love to know what kind of turtle Splurtle is!!! I used to have "red eared sliders", and they always ate their food IN the water. He may be just under the surface, with just his nostrils above like a snorkel, or if he hangs out deeper in the water, he can hold his breath a very long time while Nestor waits for him to surface for another breath. SUPER pond for a turtle.

[@clairekurdelak2913]

Ooh! And love the live hedge! Hooray for the good old way of doing it.

[@williamevans9426]

Did you used to use Spurtle to stir your porridge?

[@Sewtired]

Love the Mapperton rewilding project. Please more videos.

[@MappertonLive]

More to come!

[@baddie1shoe]

Gosh-what gorgeous gardens you’ve cultivated and preserved. So impressive.

[@Oliver-Can]

What a lovely little new born it is brilliant new pony . Sorry about Your lost and good luck Nestor hope you found it already

[@lenorawestwoodson5710]

How delightfully informative. I love the open green sloping hills.

[@MappertonLive]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kaciecouch2150]

I’m constantly impressed by the serious commitment you are taking to naturalize mapperton! The results are already noticeable and I can’t wait to see how the hedges grow in. Drinking my morning tea and cheering you on from Massachusetts!

[@alisonboydell7143]

I really enjoyed this . Thank you for sharing .

[@famprima]

Its so cold for Splurtle!

[@GenaF]

Looking forward to this one.

[@waltercook4868]

Fascinating. A living fence - a hedgerow. I wonder if you could grow a living gate? (Sorry, I'm teasing a bit)

[@DeborahMaufer]

Great drone footage! Would love to see shots starting from the house and flying to wherever you're filming on the property - it would help us get a sense of how the property is laid out 😊

[@MappertonLive]

Thanks for the idea!

[@clairekurdelak2913]

I love seeing the cattle! They will really benefit the landscape and make it more fertile.

[@rhondamartin3575]

The horses are so beautiful ❤️! Congratulations on new foal! I'm sorry to hear about Onion! I hope you don't have anymore flooding!!!!! Love and hugs to all of you!

[@silva7493]

The animals are all looking gorgeous! Such a seriously beautiful new foal. So sorry about Onion, may she RIP. Have the beavers left again?

[@MappertonLive]

Yes they have! But we think we know where one is!

[@silva7493]

@@MappertonLive Oh good. Hopefully the other isn't far off.

[@LindaChatterjee]

I love that Nestor is now taller than Dad and (thinks he) has better ideas 🙂

[@joanbrate]

Love Nestor and Luke

[@KA-su9ww]

The new foal is so cute🐴🐎

[@KA-su9ww]

Hello from 48 degrees Tampa Florida thank you for the like I was just watching your video with marathon love all you videos.

[@sherinewright1526]

Loved this!! Hilarious!!! 😂 🐢

[@SweetOne.]

I was thinking you had beaver in the pool lol Spurtle the Turtle it is then. Hope Nestor had some gloves with him. Sorry you lost a piggy. Cleaning out the skimmers will help clear the water, just tap them out into the garden, good fertilizer.

[@huskeyfosterfail4980]

Luke is such an awesome narrator! Thank you Luke for inviting us to share time in your home for better and worse thru victories and challenges. I hope to be able to visit someday. It is on my bucket list.

[@Aurora-qn2dx]

Glad it was a turtle.. thought was a sword in the stone style fish in their moat if you are familiar with the Disney animation film.

[@virginiaalderson4793]

Nester is quite naturally funny. Are you going to ask the turtle to turn around 😅

[@Burbankelly]

😂😂😂 “There is, of course, a net! 👉🏻” I’m raising a teen boy too and this had me howling!

[@lianefehrle9921]

I love this kind of show about your home.

[@c.r.p.968]

You really should submerge biochar into your pool, which ill clean the water and then the biochar can be used as fertilizer, returning the carbon to the soil, while cleaning the water and making the pool more appealing.

[@sandrasimmons1553]

You know if you build it, they will come! How come you don’t have a gift shop to sell online? I’d buy a tea towel or coffee mug.

[@mysticmimi3924]

Fabulous foal! Many blessings to him\her

[@daphneoakes8389]

Nestor is such a good sport!

[@ChicagoDB]

Superb!

[@MappertonLive]

Thanks a lot!

[@gregmason125]

Really good stuff. Glad the council is starting to fix the drive. And how long will it take the hedge to grow in? 1 or 2 seasons? Any luck on the turtle?

[@cynthiamorton3583]

Oh, fathers and sons! Pretty funny the world over. Great episode, good to see all the thriving animals, but sad to learn about Onion. Thank you!

[@MappertonLive]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ruthmiller8919]

Hi all from Springfield Missouri

[@klezmersue]

Thank you for this video. Another excellently done show. Yay turtle!! Thank you team Mapperton. Well done Luke! :)

[@Sirshackleton]

Nestor is looking and sounding like a grownup. Parents did a beautiful job rearing him!😊

[@stevenkaskus6173]

Glad at least the roadway is one expense you won't have to bare. So sorry to hear about Onion 😢💔. Excited to see the brand new healthy foal and Mom doing well ❤. Hope all the rest are well and being found/rounded up and this won't be repeated, once is enough.

[@gizfunnyblomper5289]

Wonderful episode can not wait for the next!!!

[@maryjanekolesar8325]

What a fascinating update! ❤ Does look like an earthquake, however with green sand (learned all about that geological feature in one of your previous vlogs, thank you! 😍) more likely due to water erosion. Too bad about onion 😢

[@stephaniespooner9150]

Just a little tip to spot a turtle or anything else swimming around. Try wearing polarized sunglasses! It removes the glare on the surface.

[@thedavidjwschmidt]

Wait! Is Nestor still sitting by the pool waiting for the turtle???

[@brighidbrennan3168]

rolls of Barley Hay works great on cleaning up algae

[@HaloFlemz86]

How old would the spturtle be? Congrats on the foal. Mummy horse looks radiant, she's glowing. Love from Canada ❤

[@marcoperoni4735]

You need to build turtle a floating island with shelter on it with a shallow ramp. They love sunbathing and dry land believe it or not.

[@Jayhawkga]

The foal looks great. Sorry about your pig. I'm looking foreword to part 2.

[@ladyjustice1474]

You have a turtle? I love Turtles, they're fascinating.

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

Haven't we seen this KZbin video previously?

[@kcstill3108]

So much news - I’m sorry about Onion. But a baby pony! The road - seriously does look like post-earthquake damage - ugh. And Nestor sitting by the pool waiting for the turtle. 😂

[@palomahealing5073]

The pigs are thriving!!👌

[@PipeDreamerJacques]

It's funny to me that the swimming pool is all gross and brown, and the newt pond is so clear you can see the bottom when the drone flies over lol.

[@ruthmiller8919]

Luke that was a terrible thing to do to Nester

[@hollykeller1545]

Very nice❣️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@AmericanGirlAll]

Put a small turtle ramp where you want him to go to, and feed him regularly and train him to come to a common area.

[@faronrich9381]

Can you test the pool? I live in the US, and I have had swimming pools, fish ponds, and lived on lakes; your pool is a swimmable fish pond with steep sides and no fish. When you experienced the terrible algae bloom, I thought of two things: too much rain affecting the pH and too much compost-filled runoff from the grass and gardens next to it. No filter could overcome those two problems. Removing the algae manually was the first step, and the brown color doesn't make it unswimmable. Still, I would check the bacterial, amoeba, and parasite counts before swimming because of compost runoff. Because England's weather is cooler than the US in most areas, I doubt there is a problem, but tracking what's in the pool is helpful. One ongoing problem will be your inability to remove all the decaying matter falling into it daily. That makes your pool more like a lake, but it doesn't have the natural features of a lake that control the runoff. I would investigate a very gentle way to remove the debris on the bottom once or twice a year, being careful not to damage the liner. It contains the good bacteria the pool needs to live. I was not surprised that after cleaning the pool with a pressure sprayer and then allowing it to dry out, serious problems developed. In fact, I screamed "Nooooooo!" at my computer screen when you started the project. You will need to clean the pool every couple of years, but only with handbrushes. It will be tedious, but the liner contains the minerals and life you need to keep the pool in check, especially with natural filters. In the end, you might need some aeration, but there are several different types; bubblers work as well as a fountain. No matter what you do, your swimming pool is now a living, breathing entity; you are going to walk out and look into it and scream, "No!" for the rest of its life, and then, like a doctor, you will have to diagnose its problem and fix it. (To help the wildlife, like turtles and mice, get out of your pool, build a ramp; you don't want Mickey decaying in the debris at the bottom.)

[@JoaninFlorida]

He needs a more turtle friendly way to climb in and out of the pool.

[@dianegriffith3006]

Spurtle the Turtle. What a cute name. Well, I hope he surfaced from the pond-maybe he was taking a long siesta. Loved watching how well the animals are doing. A new life and then sadly losing another life. And yes those deep burrows do resemble an earthquake. 🐖 🐎 🐄

[@jeanmkaufmann]

I have been wondering if there has been any sign of the beavers. 🙂🇨🇦

[@luciaroslingshaw2112]

Poor piggie, but congrats on the new horse.

[@paulabibb1116]

Mapperton would be a fabulous place for supporting the preservation of rare draft horse breeds. Keeping even six would help stabilize the population of your choice. They would also attract visitors. Who could resist these gentle giants. Most are bred for docility and are surprisingly easy to handle.🐎

[@eloisebates7827]

Where i grew up in Wisconsin, turtles hibernate during the winter, basically holding their breath until they wake up and surface when the days get longer and things are no longer frozen over. Could Splurtle have gone into hibernation?

[@thesolitarycyclist9005]

Great to see the young foal! Does this mean you didn't geld the stallion after all?

[@Sirshackleton]

Never turn your back on a bull..words of wisdom from my Daddy.😊

[@longwaytotipperary]

I thought turtles hibernate in winter?? Really enjoyed this episode!! Baby foal is so adorable!! Have the beavers returned? As always the photography is gorgeous!

[@LindaChatterjee]

Hedging is a wonderful British craft.

[@calevy7099]

Tamworths?

[@SkipMDMan]

Did you leave poor Nestor sitting beside the pool? At least take him some hot chocolate, or hot tea!

[@dsmith9796]

Do the horses have somewhere to get out of the rain - especially, during the cold storms?

[@PLuMUK54]

They are Exmoor ponies. They do not require shelter as they are used to living up on the moor.

[@rebeccaanderson5191]

Can you rent a submersible sonar thingy? Is Nestor up for SCUBA diving lessons?

[@w.sommen5209]

Sorry Onion died , glad the rest thrives . They look absolutely beautiful.

[@wendy-moore]

Fun things going on all over! Sorry about the pig.

[@heatherdeavalon]

Ah, life in the country! I'm so sad about Onion. The new foal is beautiful! Beavers? Spurtle? ❤

[@radar2ana]

What about Nester?