Your calves are exceptional.

@evoblade2000

2 жыл бұрын

Homeboy does not skip leg day.

@relaxingnature2617

2 жыл бұрын

They give away free pants to the poor at some churchs

@MattyNut

Жыл бұрын

he's a true highlander

@animalbeats

Жыл бұрын

I thought the same

@1337fraggzb00N

Жыл бұрын

It's because he is not a Welshman.

When I was younger my Father and my Grandfather took be to see some of the dams in the Scotish borders. I remember them telling me that when the dams were built the farms were flooded and are still under the water. When I went back to school I drew what I thought it looked like and I drew a house under water with fish swimming around it. I was amazed that what I pictured was not far from reality. Fantastic video, I really love all your videos. Looking forward to the next one.

@whoarewe7515

Жыл бұрын

Did you get your inspiration from a gold fish bowl?

to me its crazy how fast the grass re-establishes itself, the hills ache to be meadows.

@CalumRaasay

Жыл бұрын

"the hills ache to be meadows" jesus what a great line!

The double walls gives a dead air space between, which acts as insulation from heat and cold. Cleverly built.

@MG-bs5mr

Жыл бұрын

Don't all homes have cavity walls?

@MG-bs5mr

Жыл бұрын

@MR Blaze Pukka how long have cavities been in use though because I was raised in a house that is now 100 years old and that had cavity walls.

Damn, you really captured some beautiful shots in this, Calum. The whole thing was fascinating to watch. Thank you for posting!!

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Seth! Managed to get some great weather this week to film it all!

@merekat2k12

Жыл бұрын

@@CalumRaasay awesome veiws caught with your camera ❤️

@itallia666

Жыл бұрын

Just a shout out to a fellow Horn My surname is Horn too, no "e" at the end though, like you. I dont know if your in Scotland or the North or from elsewhere in the world. My fathers people named Horn origionally came from northern Norway over to Scotland in the mid 1700s & settled in Inverness & across the north Inlet to Dornoch There are branches of our family still there. My dads great grandfather came down to Newcastle Upon Tyne to work in the great industry of Shipbuilding that was once so prevalent in this area of the Northumbrian coast all the way up to Inverness, & downover to the great shipyards on the River Wear in Sunderland Anyway hope this finds you fit & well & may blessings make your day good. 🇬🇧👧

One thing that strikes me about Scotland is how barren it actually is. Once upon a time it was teeming with forests and wildlife, it even had the most extensive temperate rainforest in Europe going all the way down the west coast of Scotland into Cumbria in England. Scotland should actually look like Norway a little bit, covered in pine forests, but there's nothing but bare hills and rocks across bare moors and meadows. The industrial revolution seriously scarred these islands and we've never really allowed our landscape to recover from it. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland; they're all still beautiful, but they used to be so much wilder, each having a genuine wilderness we've since long lost.

@stemartin6671

2 жыл бұрын

Agriculture also stripped vast amounts of forest from the UK.

@demonhighwayman9403

2 жыл бұрын

The highland clearances had a lot to do with it.

@joelthomson8697

Жыл бұрын

The British Isles should be one big forest. Thank you very much, industrial revolution. It's only 'green and pleasant' because it rains. Could very easily become brown and barren if the global temperature increases at the rate it's on track to... :/

@roddymcniven8734

Жыл бұрын

@@demonhighwayman9403WHAT?? please elaborate

@demonhighwayman9403

Жыл бұрын

@@roddymcniven8734 All the crofters were thrown off their land to make way to make way for large amounts of livestock, to do this land also had to be cleared of tree's etc.

I can really see why my grandpa though Scotland was the most beautiful place on earth. He was there during WWII while in the US Navy and he said he always wished he could return and bring my grandma with him. Sadly, they never made the trip.

Here in America the vast majority of our wind farms have been a failure. They may be the future for Great Britain but they’re not working out that well here in the United States. The pictures you took and the videos are absolutely astounding and beautiful.

@dpt6849

9 ай бұрын

Most countries have high costs dus to maintenance. It seems to be a scam

Someone should invent an underwater drone to film things like this. Here in France there are many drowned buildings and one town in the south in particular was drowned complete, they left it all and they even used the flooding of it in a movie, it was quite spectacular. The first place in France I visited on holiday was on the edge of a flooded valley and in summer the church with it's bells protruded from the water along with other buildings.

@irisgreene4175

Жыл бұрын

Research Tartaria and the mudflood

@randomsandwichian

Жыл бұрын

We have the tech, we just need the people now!

@whoarewe7515

Жыл бұрын

They had the tech when they built the calypso g.

@toasterhavingabath6980

8 ай бұрын

remote submarine?... the things that definetly already exist?

@TheFiown

8 ай бұрын

Spot on ! Yikes ! @@toasterhavingabath6980

Hello Calum I just wanted to say how pleasant it is to see a young man who has such intelligence, and passion for social history as you obviously have. Your narration is not waffle by and means and I listened to every word, the whole presentation was fascinating. I have just subscribed, best wishes and I will now begin to watch all your material now I have found it. Thank you.

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry I missed this comment! Thank you so much, really appreciate that.

Fascinating video, I love the way you edited in the photos you took! Love this and all your other content, keep it up!

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kai! I was so happy to finally inlude some photography in my videos! Will definatley be doing more of that in the future!

@ScumfuckMcDoucheface

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah man, i couldn't agree more. =)

I'm reading up on Raasay, it sounds really cool. I'm from Iceland and it gives me somewhat familiar vibes, but of course there's the distinct difference that the British isles have been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, quite unlike Iceland.

@AJNpa80

2 жыл бұрын

I would trade a kidney for Icelandic citizenship. I haven't stopped dreaming about your country since I drove the ring road aimlessly for 15 days, checking out spur roads, towns, trails booking the closest guest house at sundown each day. We skipped the triangle and the lagoon. The architecture and infrastructure so orderly, clean, ergonomic. The thing that I didn't expect was the vocal tradition. Walked into a bar and a bunch of people were singing. The resonance of the voices together in the room, at parts it reached a fever pitch and I could feel the sound pressure on my chest cavity. It wasn't so loud that it hurt my ears. It was one of the most memorable and intense moments ever. I knew about the storytelling and writing, I knew people sang, I just didn't expect that. Being Irish I've been in many public house rooms where people sang to pass the time. I'm not an art nerd or anything, it just blew my mind. I expected most of the other things though, everything exceeded my expectations. The intensity of the landscape, the micro climates, everything changes over a couple hundred k. I've never felt so drawn to a place. Since I first breathed the air I haven't stopped thinking about the place. It was an irregularly warm late February into March that we were there. The weather swung several times per day by location. It was like going from Oz to the Arctic to the fjords and back to the bright green land of Oz. Caught a snowfall, some ice, and there was a large snowfall the day we left. If only I could find a way, then again I suppose everyone would want to stay if it wasn't so difficult.

@Karl_Kampfwagen

2 жыл бұрын

Iceland is better inhabited than Britain. Those Roman ass-hats didn't bring along their best engineers, which is PAINFULLY OBVIOUS seeing the last 1400+ years of "British Engineering." Germans won. They even took the British Isles. Nobody wants to admit it, but the Windsor family/Queen Victoria 3's family are literally German folks, pretending to be British, because WHY THE F*** NOT?! PROVE ME WRONG

I lived in California's gold country at the peak of our drought and watched as old mining facilities and ghost towns slowly reemerged from our reservoirs, did some exploring myself but didn't care to document it at all this was around the same time that the reservoir at Mt Shasta drained and a lost hiker was finally found pinned beneath a tree after some thirty odd years

just about the best narrator job I've ever listened to. Also, that van is awesome!

I really enjoyed the photography you popped in! There is something fascinating about underwater ruins especially when they resurface, there is a certain mystery and draw to these places where time works differently on structures and it feels like peeling back the curtains to get a glimpse of times past, preserved as if they had only recently been submerged. Also maybe this appeals because I've been reading a book about bog bodies and the author talks about how the preservation that occurs in bogs, fens and mires changes how we perceive these sometimes very well preserved bodies in comparison to how people feel regarding skeletonized remains.

As a young Marine in the 1970s we were sent to Scotland and trained there. It is an amazingly hauntingly beautiful landscape. I devour EVERY movie about and filmed in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!!

Back in the 70's they built four lane highways to motor all the way up Scotland to the top, way before it was actually needed and it's a joy to drive very early in the morning in winter on these great roads covered in snow with the faery landscape following us.

@sp-overton7516

Жыл бұрын

What four lane highways are these? I live near John O'Groats (top of Scottish mainland) and I can say for certain that there is no four lane highway that comes all the way up since the 70's. Dualing the A9 is still on going, large sections between Perth and Inverness weren't done until the 90's, and the section north of Helmsdale wasn't done until 2005/2006. I remember single track roads mixed with normal roads when I was young, and a couple of those larger bridges weren't built either.

Awww, thank you so much for your valuable videos, I only came across this video tonight. I'm hoping that you still do your Videos. Much appreciated much love from the UK xxx

I came for the tiny campervan. I stayed for the social history and photography. Your video doesn't appear anti-renewables at all. I too am fascinated but can't help feeling sad for someone's loss especially as it's mostly forgotten about now.

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alex! Much appreciated. More van content on the way!

Great to see the early use of cavity wall, a design that has become common place but was invented in this parts to protect the internal skin of brickwork from the driving rain

The wooden wedge at 12:40 is a "dook". used before screws and rawlplugs for creating fixings. Cut with an axe in a shape to create a cambing action when hammered in. The joiner also needed a dooking chisel to remove the mortar to create a gap for the dook. Your skirtings and stuff were nailed to the dook.

@CalumRaasay

Жыл бұрын

Great spot!

Lovely video , great to see these buildings saved for all time along with the farm house preserved for evermore .

Oh how my fingers itch to touch those stones as you explore this beautiful place. Your vid does for me, what I might never be able to do, and I thank you for that. I hope someday to go to the Isle of Skye. It's on my bucket list. Thanks again. Melanie

I'm impressed no sunken boats , anchors, cars or barrels with bodies in them. Great job taken care of you water ways.

Mudlarking in Scottland! Beautiful Bl&Wh Photos...really lovely and so special

I worked on the dam reconstruction back in the early 90s in upper glendevon recognised it straight away. The old ruins would pop up from time to time.

The world becomes a better place when people make things like this. Thankyou.

@CalumRaasay

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

This is incredibly fascinating and something I never even thought of before. Thank you for documenting and bringing us along on this adventure. It reminds me of the times I explored old ruins in the forest as a kid. Those were of course never submerged like these were, but I can relate to that curiosity and also pondering about who lived there before and what it was like. What's the story embedded in those walls? What have they seen?

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Maia! I'd love to more videos like this exploring parts of Scotland, it's a real passion of mine! But you're exactly right, I'm at my happiest in woods or hills or anywhere exploring ruins and trying to discover a bit more of the history of them!

@dharmaqueen

2 жыл бұрын

@@CalumRaasay I would love to see more of this type of video, drone shots are great but handheld could do with some image stabalization cause it makes my eyes hurt, showing my age. Keep up the good work.

Thanks so much for this video. It was so interesting and your photos were beautiful. I'll certainly watch any other videos you have done. It's amazing how all these years later the original views have somewhat surfaced. Great van by the way!

I was brought up near Loch Cluanie and it was a fairly common occurrence for the loch to be low, especially in the Summer, the chimneys were a good signal that it was particularly dry. I knew they belonged to the lodge but wasn't aware that it actually the wash house. As a side note, these hydro schemes didn't just drown land, in Loch Ness they extended the shoreline when tunnel waste was dumped in the Loch during the 1950's. Now covered in birch woodland you would never think it was under water 70 years ago, and gives you an idea of how quickly forest can establish itself in Scotland.

@CalumRaasay

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've always been unlucky, I've driven Cluaine hundreds of times but I never got the chance to stop much to look for the old ruins!

Thank you for sharing both this excellent video and your still photos as well.

So glad this came up on KZread. I really enjoyed all the pictures!! Thank you so much!!

@CalumRaasay

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Lucille! Was really glad to be able to share them

“Droughts and dryness” is not something I would ever have thought about when mentioning Scotland. Especially as an Australian

Nice that you also showed us the photographs you took, especially the black & white ones are beautiful. 👌😀👍 ❗

Fascinating and interesting as your other videos. Thanks Calum

Just found this channel and really enjoyed this video. I'm an englishman with a deep love of scotland. My great Grandfather was Scottish, so somewhere down the line I'm a bit Scottish i like to think. i usually come to Scotland several times a year but since the pandemic struck i haven't been at all. I'm looking forward to coming again this year all being well. Thanks for sharing your travels and you have a new subscriber.

Hi there I have an actual photo on my phone of the original house ,in the photo they had a yard for chickens geese ,etc at the main door ,my father's friend as a young man used to walk from Tillicoultry to. Blackford in the summer (11mile walk)and Sheppard's wife used to serve tea coffee cakes for passing walkers at the window facing the water,I also knew about ancient archeological sites too here there are numerous sites in the Ochil hills ,just down the road in I think Dunning area of the ochils they found a ball made of stone it's called the sherrifmuir ball perfectly round stone ball with inscriptions on it it was made 4000years ago ,great video.

Great photography. Absolutely made the episode seeing your artfully composed perspective.

Fascinated and gorgeous photos! Thank you!

The one place outside the USA I’ve gotten to visit was Scotland. It’s such an amazingly beautiful place! Thank you for posting this video, it was very cool to see this!

I really enjoyed your still photos. Amazing look at time and progress.

@CalumRaasay

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Thank you very much! A few years ago I worked in Gleneagles Hotel and I lived in the staff accommodation there. I walked to Glendevon reservoirs, but I would never say what could be hidden under water.

Man your content is amazing, keep up the great work

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

😀Thank you! Really appreciate that

Great video mate, will be watching more! Interesting fact you may like to know I that here in north east Victoria Australia, they moved the entire town of Tallangatta in the 50’s to escape the rising waters of an extended Lake Hume. The streets, train station and foundations of the houses are visible most summers.

Calum, this was really wonderful. The shots at 7:50 are simply stunning, otherworldly. Thanks!

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Much appreciated

Great stuff Calum, Love your videos.

This was great. Awesome photo's & drone footage!

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Awesome stuff 👍 Gonna have to visit this place, just found your channel from your latest vid. Content is very interesting and well explained.

It’s been a pleasure discovering your channel, m8! You and I clearly have very similar interests. Thanks for the excellent content…it’s well-produced and fascinating! Liked and subscribed for sure

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Much appreciated

Hey man incredible work again! So informative!! Absolutely love your stuff dude

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike! Really appreciated!

Just amazing... those bridges, and especially the fence line still standing... And the windfarm ironically attacking the locals again...

Thanks Callum, that's excellent! I must nip up and take a look myself.

Really fascinating watch. Thanks for putting effort into this :)

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Very interesting! It looks like the windows of the house were modernised when the extension went on, the main part of the house looks much older. Thanks for sharing this :)

Fantastic video. I was riveted. In the past I travelled extensively in the highland and I always read up and dug into the history of the places I visited. Your videos are on a whole new dimension though.. Thanks for your work.

Great video with very nice footage, especially the drone footage. thanks 😊

I remember visiting that spot in Wales when I was a boy in 1962. I was visiting from America. My grandmother in Worcester and I took a Midland Red coach tour to Wales and I remember the driver saying that you could see the village church steeple sticking out of the water when the level was low. I've always wondered about that and if true, did they relocate any bodies and tomb stones to higher ground before flooding the place. Fascinating video. Thanks for bringing back a fond childhood memory.

Great Vlog Calum loved the drone footage and the stills. Reservoirs hide some amazing finds when the drop. We have one on Dartmoor with some prehistoric monuments i have seen a clapper bridge and stone circles that were lost.. You need a buy me a coffee link as well as Patreon.

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I need to get better with Patreon and the like! Hopefully for 2022. Thanks for the support 🙏

Great video and i would love more of this style!

Fascinating stuff you do. Thank you.

Great, glad you're doing these.

Wow, I really wish I could do something similar to you. Travelling around in a van with my computer and gear in the back and just enjoy the occasional weekend just exploring the past.

I love the photos you took!

I'm "incredibly glad" you came to visit. Really interesting video showing what I assume will remain the landscape here (plus vegetation in the future) and demonstrating how people are pushed and shunted around for the sake of energy production. I sympathize with the folks that had to move from such an idyllic location.

This is brilliant, you've gained a subscriber. Whilst you were covering these, I had a separate Chrome tab open on the National Library of Scotland. They have georeferenced maps where you can overlay modern satellite imaging onto old (~100 years ago) OS maps. If you drop me a message I can link it to you. On Loch Cluanie you can see the entire previous road including some sort of military road called General Wade's Military Road to the west. If you haven't already heard of this mapping tool, I'd suggest scouring the hydro reservoirs around Scotland and seeing what is buried beneath the waves.

classic Scottish architecture is so charming, I love your culture, one of the few places I want to visit

Some really great shots captured!

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I noticed on the extension on the farmhouse that they installed cavity walls on the build and most cavity walls didn’t appear until roughly the 1940,s or late 30,s so they have tried to get some insulation done, just trying to pinpoint when the extension was done, lovely shot of the beauty of Scotland, on a personal note I think it’s despicable to turn people out of their homes, there’s plenty of glens with water flowing them and no homes in them why not build a dam there , it reminds me of the highland clearances, great post

That bridge is testament to the skill of workers back in the day.

Beautiful Landscape, Amazing, Just want to travel To Scotland Now 🙂

Absolutely brilliant video, especially about Loch Cluanie! I'm up and down to Skye a few times a year, and always mean to stop there and have a good explore. I can never quite remember where the various bridges and bits are. I wonder if anyone has dived at the chimney stacks, it would be interesting to see what's still left below. There's Loch Loyne as well, where the old road from Tomdoun went over to Cluanie - sometimes the two bridges there get exposed as well, but it's a wee bit of a hike up.

Thanks for sharing your travels with us.

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching - and commenting!

Hi just came across you... Brilliant keep doing what you are doing x

Amazing, thanks for sharing.

Great video. Loved the drone footage. 👍🏻 Next time can you use a stabilising gimbal or some device? The handheld part is so shaky and dizzy.

Appreciate the 3 layered view of historic change .Captivating experience.

@CalumRaasay

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Fascinating stuff and some excellent photography.

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I admire your photographs...Hope you can include more

Wow I used to live in Scotland in the 90s and all this is new to me. Thankyou for enlightening me to more history of a country I love and of my ancestors.

Thanks for bringing up Dryweryn, I was wondering if Scotland got to keep the energy produced or if it was also situation like that. Absolutely beautiful footage and photos! almost like an aurora in some places.

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’d actually scripted and recorded a whole piece about Capel Celyn and Llanwddyn for this but it didn’t really fit. Maybe deserves its own video. Great old documentary called “Celts: the final conflict” that discusses it too.

@groeacht8525

2 жыл бұрын

The electricity generated did indeed stay in Scotland, often meaning even in remote areas homes had electricity decades before running water made it to the area, so they could boil a kettle but the water would still need to be filled from a well and carried miles.

@hawkedriot178

2 жыл бұрын

@@CalumRaasay ooh I'd love to see that. My friend and I spent a lot of time driving around lake vyrnwy in our 20s, and as beautiful they managed to make a dam, I always wondered what the landscape would be without it. Manchester is teeming with reservoirs, wonder why Liverpool figured Wales was easier?

2 uploads in 3 weeks! 2021 is turning out alright after all!

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

haha! Both this, the Jimny and the Campervan video were all 'weekend videos' that didn't require much research, just lots of filming. Hopefully I'll get a few other videos out soon too!

@peskier-yt

2 жыл бұрын

@@CalumRaasay These weekend videos mean a lot to me in my small work-from-home office! So good to see what else this island can offer when I can finally take my family on a good trip around.

Fascinating stuff. I loved the colours - and the juxtaposition of the modern day wind turbines, ever present in the edge of most of the shots. One minor moan though - I found the rapid movement of the camera a bit difficult to watch. Not only did the picture blur a bit, but I actually started to feel a bit dizzy! Back in the dry, hot summer of 76 we visited Devon and Cornwall in the middle of probably the worst drought of the century (?), and I have a photo of me standing on a bridge that hadn't been seen since the reservoir was originally flooded. I can't remember which reservoir it was though! Somewhere on Dartmoor or Exmoor, probably. The thing that struck me then (and again today watching your video) is how well arches survive. All that stuff we were taught in physics about the compression strength of arches was right!

Was lucky to do a similar walk a few years ago in Derbyshire when they lowered the water in Ladybower Reservoir and the remains of Derwent Hall were visible.

I remember see the house exposed once before , it may have been in 1995 but i believe that it would have been before that, maybe the late 80's, the water wasn't as low then is it is here and the house appeared to be on an island or it may have been that it wasn't even fully exposed. i remember that the chimney was still standing at that time. Interesting to see that the house appears to have been built in two stages, one section built earlier in stone and the later part in brick. thank you for sharing your trip to Cluanie, brought back a lot of memories.

Another excellent doco Calum, great to see Cluanie ,dam exposed like this!👌

Amazing. I love stuff like this. Not the dryness. I'm from Oregon born '89 and I am obsessed with rain and temperate rainforest ecosystems I've grown up living in and it's crazy seeing how dry it's been. But I sure love getting to explore lesser known and abandoned locations. On a end note: I believe science will prevail and we will be enjoying complaining about the rain and storms in no time lol

Holy s*it! The enourmous amounts of usually plentiful sweetwater missing there are impressive and scary. Thank you!

I hope it starts to fill up soon. Interesting. Thanks.

Ffs youtube why are you only just recommending this amazing channel to me?

Cheers from Oklahoma, USA. Glad to have stumbled across your channel!

A fascinating, beautiful place. Thanks.

That's such a cozy van you have there! You should do videos on any modifications or showcase some of the features. I'm sure there are many out there who would like to see them. 😎

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Abolutely going to make a van tour! Just a few bits to finish off first!

I love this as we've recently traced our Scottish heritage back to 1500

Iv'e watched several of these low water reservoir videos and each one has been equally sad and fascinating.

The brick round the windows show where the windows were enlarged or even put in, likewise the brick extension on the side, my cottage has the same additions, put on in 1948 when water as put on inside the house (including hot water from a back boiler), prior to that there was a well round the back. You should come down to Galloway and visit our hydro scheme, built in the 1930s, a very impressive set of dams and generating houses that are reasonably easy to access, Tongland used to do tours round it but I think they have been suspended for the moment, we are well worth the visit. 😊.

This is like another planet man. Scotland's like another planet from out of the solar system. Great.. Scotland. Awesome landscape...

Thanks for this. Really enjoyed it.

A strange recommendation but a welcome one, really interesting stuff

@bigbasil1908

2 жыл бұрын

It might be something to check out next time you're up in Rainland

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Enjoy your work 👍🏻

(20:21 Yeah, you can clearly see it in the lower right corner. I'm fascinated by early proto castles and the old motte-and-baily design is a particular favorite of mine. How awesome to see the remains of one. 🙂 To be clear, the motte was the hill the castle part was on and the courtyard was the bailey.

@CalumRaasay

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah have a wee read of that report, very interesting stuff!

Another really interesting piece of work. Thank You very much. Jim Bell (Australia)

@CalumRaasay

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jim!