....There is a place of wonder.....

.....a unique place.....
.....a place that is wild and beautiful.....

.....it is a place on our Kent coast line that i love to go to.........to be blown by the never stopping winds that buffet the shore line, and to just be completely enveloped in its wild unstoppable fury.....


.....This place is called 'Dungeness'.....

.....This wilderness is one of the longest shingle beaches in the world, and it is a national nature reserve and a special protection area.....

......When you are there, standing on the edge of the world you cant help but be transported......

.....And the only way to see this place is when the weather is at its absolute best,, Armageddon one side, and heaven the other......

....This wilderness here has been slowly shaped by time, and also shaped very gently by human hand......

....every boat here has been left to naturally rot and decay, yet an artists hand has made these corpses seem like the heart beat is still faint......

 

.....the intestines of the boats lay strewn around....

 

 

....and the once beating hearts are mounted on plinths as pieces of sculpture....

 

 

 

 

 

 

....wood...iron...and stone....

 

 

 

.....your emotions cannot help but be stirred here....

 

 

....there are a few small wooden houses barely bigger than a large shed that artists and writers live in.....to be inspired by the scenery and the weather......

 

 

......this was also the home of the late Derek Jarmen, he was an English film and music video maker........and many people come to see his home and photograph it as it has a beauty all its own....

 

 

....there is book available about 'Derek Jarmans house and garden' if you want to know more......

 

....The poem on the side of the house is by John Donne, and is called 'The sun rising'....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....my heart is home in wild places....

Pixie x

 

 

....Here is lovely video of Derek Jarmans garden....