It may be more than 7,000 miles from Hawaii, and almost 20C colder, but the West Country provided one of the world’s best waves for surfers today.
Wearing hooded, full-body wetsuits, a group of surfers took to the River Severn estuary in Newnham, Gloucestershire, to ride one of the world’s largest tidal surges – The Seven Bore.
The wave, which is caused by changing water levels, travels against the river current at around 13 miles per hour and can sometimes climb to two metres high.
There are about six main points along the 20-mile stretch of river where the wave is at its strongest strongest, with dozens of surfers and kayakers racing to meet the wave at each point … Pictures and more
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