THE KINGDOM OF BUTTERFLIES
“ EACH SUNLIT DAY, THE SHALLOW ESTUARINE WATERS GLEAM SILVER ”
Our islands specialise in hidden utopias. One of the very best of these contains a small (75 square miles) Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – the Arnside and Silverdale AONB on the border of Lancashire and Cumbria. This is no mere landscape, for it reaches out into the silvery seascape of the Morecambe Bay estuary and into the skyscape. More importantly, it is a dreamscape: a place to stop and stare, where dreams may come true. It is a part of paradise that fell to earth, liked where it landed and stayed.
Many of us have sped past, usually at the end of fraught journeys up the M6 to the Lake District, not knowing that we have bypassed somewhere arguably even more special. This is nothing
