The Elvering Days

from the reflection series

My home town, when I was growing up was Gloucester, located in the west country on the banks of the river Severn, with the Cotswolds to the north, and the Forest of Dean to the west. The estuary of the Severn is five miles from one bank to the other and narrows as it snakes inland for 220 miles. Because of it’s size at the estuary and the way it narrows over a relatively short distance upstream some higher tides a phenomenon known as The Severn Bore, a leading wave that travels rapidly up the river, so powerful that surfers can ride the wave for many miles.