Severn Bore
Saturday 21 February 2015
A large bore had been forecast: 5-star, the highest category bore at the informative Severn Bore website. Combined with beautiful sunshine and it being a fairly late morning tide on a Saturday, I figured it would be a busy one. Last year we watched from near the Old Passage Inn, Arlingham, so for a change and to avoid the crowds we went a little upstream from the Anchor Inn at Epney. We could see there was quite a crowd there, but only a few people were near us on the peaceful riverbank in the warm calm sunshine. Then the bore arrived, and the river changed! An amazing natural spectacle.
Before the bore, the river is calm and almost like a mirror
The bore arrives
Three surfers and a kayak on the wave
Soon only the kayak remains
Kayak surfing the Severn Bore
The bore, beneath my feet
The bore, heading upstream
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