Trespassing the Future by Majyk
December 31st, 2008 11:29 AMThere was quite a few options considered by myself, (none of them truely lawful) and im still getting the hang of this
game. needless to say ive been carrying my camera everywhere with me for the possible chances to "tresspass the future"
as i've always found the best chances come when you least expect them!
Anyway enough of my pointless ramblings I'll get on with what im explaining.
A friend of mine's dad owns a pier on the south west side of the island and he's selling it! so the fact is in under 10 years i wont be able to go there! hence it seemed like a good trespass and i was going to be fishing there anyway so two birds with one stone! And the second point being that the piers a wreck and barely standing (but it's well over a hundred years old so it must be given its due) anyway! look at the pictures and you'll see what i mean. So without a doubt i wont be able to go there in ten years as it will either have collapsed (If it isn't lovingly repaired) or be owned by someone else. But in defense of the owner maintaining a pier is a very expensive thing so thats pretty much why its fallen into disrepair. but i cant miss out the good points to it, e.g. the fact that its an amazing place to go fishing and set in wonderful surroundings i have a few good memories down there of solstice party's all that pier needs is a good bit of TLC and a few new pylons to keep it out of the water for another hundred years, Que pictures.
Random fake poo.
They gave me a "special cup" it was 6am as i'd just put my line into the water and i was half asleep. dear god i needed that cup of precious caffeine.
pier
you see what i mean by the state of the pier?
Safe railings?
Deffinetley not safe as there held on with tape!
rotten pylon
its not the best picture in the world but if you can see the sag in floor and railings thats where the pylon has rotted away and collapsed below the waterline.
effects of the ocean
most of the floor is ply-boarded over
rust!
More rust!
elements at work
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Ok ok ive made it sound worse than it is but i do have a habit of exagerating
and ive never trusted structures built on the sea i just keep expecting a giant movie style tidal wave to come and sweep us all away but the fact is its in good condition for 125 years old!
Ahh. Magik in that case I can heartily recomend Terry Pratchetts new book "Nation". It starts of with a big wave. Fee has first dips on my copy but I can lend it to you if she doesn't mind, because I know she is reading like 20 books at once (cookie says exagetrating...) ... oh and then you could try solving my secret message as well!!!!
That's a nice coat of moss on those wooden planks.
Age aside, its beautiful. I'm not a graveyard bunny by aby extent but that kind of decay has a real elegance about it, and nicely documented, Mr Majyk.
I must admit I did something naughty regards to this praxis. I asked majyk to edit it a bit, because well.. my future workshop kind of depends on it being sold. The praxis made the pier look as sad as the day looked. The pier is about 125 years old and made of wood and still standing. It is a proud little pier, too small for an amusment arcade and fun park like its larger cousin in Brighton. It features good fishing (although that trip we did with magik and co. was a bit fishless apart from magiks catch of north sea mackerel in olive oil). It sports the most excellent sunsets and a fine viewpoint for all the round the island boat races. True it needs a lot of investment bringing it back to operation like a nearby pier in Yarmouth, but it is a defining landmark in its locality and luckily we know of people who seem to have their hearts in the right place (not always in the wallet). Failing fixing the pier up the new owner could park a decommisioned submarine on the spot if the pier goes (All seashore is owned by the queen, except for the bits under piers...so I am told).