Adventure to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly
Travelling to and enjoying St Mary's Isles of Scilly.
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St Mary's Bike Hire Isles of Scilly
This is the first promo video for St Mary's Bike Hire, stmarysbikehire.co.uk the supplier of hire bikes on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, UK. Produced by Smart Exposure Promotions.
Cart Hire in the Isles of Scilly
A day out on a cart hired from scillycart.co
Exploring St. Mary’s | Isles of Scilly Travel
Gaze out over golden sands and views of Cornwall’s iconic landmarks as you take off in a 8 or 19 seater Skybus aircraft, you’ll soon be (15 minutes in fact) approaching the islands and marvelling at the awe inspiring view from above. You’ll land on the biggest island, St. Mary’s, there are lots of ways to experience all that St. Mary’s has to offer, but one of the quickest ways to get about is to hire a golf buggy. Cruise around the island, stopping to take in the sights along the way, there’s plenty of time for coffee, lunch, exploring deserted beaches and even shopping to round off the day.
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PA28 - Isles of Scilly - Leg 2 - Perranporth - St Mary's GoPro Hero3 1080p POV
A plane doesn't know it's over water ~ A local instructor, prior to our water crossing.
It's like landing on a hot cross bun ~ The description of landing at St Mary's prior to our departure from Perranporth.
As we had a long weekend from May 3 - May 5, Glen and I decided to do a fairly lengthy cross country and head to the Scilly Isles for the World Gig Championships. I flew up to London Gatwick to meet Glen and start our trip to the Isles of Scilly.
In this video we depart from Perranporth (EGTP) and cross the 25 mile stretch of water from Lands End to the Isles of Scilly (EGHE). Our total flight time was a little shy of 50 minutes.
The crossing is something we'd spent the most time planning as being 12.5 miles from any bit of land was something neither of us had ever been. We were hoping to cross with a good amount of altitude (5-6000) although the cloud base was 3000ft.
Even with Glen's IMC rating, we felt it would be better to make the crossing just below the cloud base. Despite the build up to this part of our flight (with the donning of life jackets highlighting the fact that we wouldn't have a nice field to land in should something go wrong) the crossing was fairly benign.
I apologise in advance for the fact the visor gets in the way of the GoPro when I used the head mount - lesson learnt on that one!
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Upcoming flight videos:
- Away Trip (Denham - Perranporth - Isles of Scilly - Newquay - Denham) PA28, Leg 3
- Solo Consolidation
- Navigation Exercises
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- GoPro Hero 3 Black
Audio:
- Sony ICDPX333.CE7
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Coasteering on the Isles of Scilly
You can now coasteer on the Isles of Scilly with Kernow Coasteering! Experience the stunning golden granite of Scilly with a unique, adrenalin-filled adventure. Visit to find out more.
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Behind The Scenes with Lolly | Isles of Scilly Travel
They may feel like another world, but reaching the Isles of Scilly couldn’t be easier. Whether you sail from Penzance or fly from Exeter, Newquay or Land’s End, you can look forward to personalised service, breathtaking sights and a warm welcome, from the moment you check-in.
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Gry Maritha arriving at Penzance, during November 2011
Isle of Scilly Steamship Co's Gry Maritha seen entering Penzance Harbour, Cornwall at the end of her journey from St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. The ship has been on this service for over 20 years, and is due for replacement.
IMO no. 8008462, blt 1981, Moen Slip, Norway (Yard no. 15).
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Driving a cart along Old Town Beach road
Travelling to Isles of Scilly
There are so many different ways to travel around the Isles of Scilly... but our favourites whilst over there was bicycle, by horse and by buggy.
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Glass bottom in the Isles of Scilly.
The Glass bottom boat, just one activity available to you during your visit the beautiful Isles of Scilly, one of the UK's best outdoors lovers holiday destination just off the tip of Cornwall. Reknowned for it's azure seas,impressive rock formations, peacefullness and a walkers paradise(after a brief relaxing boat trip the the island of your choice for the day....
SCILLY ISLES (8mm, August 1969)
From a reel bought on eBay.
Isles of Scilly Golf Club
A promotional video to give a taster of the experience of playing golf on Britains most Southerly course
Fishing With Skipper Nige a Nice Pollack!
A nice pollack caught off the Scilly Isles with Skipper Nige.
MOM & DAD ISLES OF SCILLY P&O CRUISE LIVE
Thank you Mom & Dad Nathan Woodcock Isles Of Scilly Friends sadly lost but not forgotten.
Timelapse tilt shift video: Happisburgh RNLI lifeboat, Norfolk UK
This unusual timelapse tilt shift video is best viewed on a tablet or computer as it provides some interesting facts and figures about the new lifeboat, the Atlantic 85 Howard Bell which went into active duty on 11th May 2017 at the Happisburgh RNLI lifeboat station, Cart Gap, Happisburgh, Norfolk UK.
The video was created by and was filmed on 21st May 2017.
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History of timekeeping devices | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
History of timekeeping devices
00:02:42 1 Timekeeping devices of early civilizations
00:03:49 1.1 Ancient Egypt
00:06:24 1.2 Ancient Greece and Rome
00:11:25 1.3 Ancient and medieval Persia
00:13:44 1.4 Ancient and medieval China
00:15:12 2 Timekeeping innovations in medieval and pre-modern periods
00:16:11 2.1 Candle clocks
00:18:14 2.2 Incense clocks
00:21:25 2.3 Sundials
00:23:09 2.4 Hourglass
00:24:16 2.5 Clocks with gears and escapements
00:29:38 2.6 Clock towers
00:30:39 2.7 Astronomical clocks
00:32:27 2.8 Early mechanical clocks and watches
00:39:03 2.8.1 Wristwatch
00:43:47 2.8.2 Equation clock
00:44:38 3 Era of precision timekeeping
00:44:48 3.1 Pendulum clock
00:47:30 3.2 Spiral-hairspring watch
00:49:08 3.3 Pocket watch
00:50:16 3.4 Marine chronometer
00:52:00 3.5 Electric clock
00:53:02 3.6 Quartz clock and watch
00:54:16 3.7 Atomic clock
00:56:10 4 Clock and watch-making industry
00:59:59 5 See also
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For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BC from the Sumerians.
The Egyptians divided the day into two 12-hour periods, and used large obelisks to track the movement of the sun. They also developed water clocks, which were probably first used in the Precinct of Amun-Re, and later outside Egypt as well; they were employed frequently by the Ancient Greeks, who called them clepsydrae. The Zhou dynasty is believed to have used the outflow water clock around the same time, devices which were introduced from Mesopotamia as early as 2000 BC.
Other ancient timekeeping devices include the candle clock, used in ancient China, ancient Japan, England and Mesopotamia; the timestick, widely used in India and Tibet, as well as some parts of Europe; and the hourglass, which functioned similarly to a water clock. The sundial, another early clock, relies on shadows to provide a good estimate of the hour on a sunny day. It is not so useful in cloudy weather or at night and requires recalibration as the seasons change (if the gnomon was not aligned with the Earth's axis).
The earliest known clock with a water-powered escapement mechanism, which transferred rotational energy into intermittent motions, dates back to 3rd century BC in ancient Greece; Chinese engineers later invented clocks incorporating mercury-powered escapement mechanisms in the 10th century, followed by Iranian engineers inventing water clocks driven by gears and weights in the 11th century.The first mechanical clocks, employing the verge escapement mechanism with a foliot or balance wheel timekeeper, were invented in Europe at around the start of the 14th century, and became the standard timekeeping device until the pendulum clock was invented in 1656. The invention of the mainspring in the early 15th century allowed portable clocks to be built, evolving into the first pocketwatches by the 17th century, but these were not very accurate until the balance spring was added to the balance wheel in the mid 17th century.
The pendulum clock remained the most accurate timekeeper until the 1930s, when quartz oscillators were invented, followed by atomic clocks after World War 2. Although initially limited to laboratories, the development of microelectronics in the 1960s made quartz clocks both compact and cheap to produce, and by the 1980s they became the world's dominant timekeeping technology in both clocks and wristwatches.
Atomic clocks are far more accurate than any previous timekeeping device, and are used to calibrate other clocks and to calculate the International Atomic Time; a standardized civil system, Coordinated Universal Time, is based on atomic time.