landscape.is morgan

Portland Island was a surprise to me. I drove onto it purely by accident, but once there found it to be a pretty sort of place with four lighthouses within 500m of each other and a very quiet nature to it.Tthe surprise came when I parked on a tiny entance to a dirt track and walked down to some cliffs I thought I had seen at the bottom. Here I found the most astoundingly beautiful views I could imagine, with scenes that conjoured up images of places such as Motopos in Zimbabwe, and the cliff top amphitheatres of Athens, Greece. This island is the home of Portland Stone, the well known building material famous since its wide spread use over the past two to three hundred years (although it was used locally for far longer). Here on these clifftops the remnants of quarrying and huge basic machinery designed to lower vast blocks of freshly squared stone onto ships waiting far below still remain, and the region's rugged nature is only complimented by man's hand shaping of its ancient rock faces.