Section 4 of 4
Tide & Bore
The water below the bluff moves further vertically than anywhere else on the Atlantic seaboard. It carries sediment that colours it brown, it builds and moves bars, and on the biggest tides it sends a single wave upriver against the current.
- The largest range on the coastSpring tides here move water further vertically than anywhere else on the Atlantic seaboard. What that does to the banks.
- The boreA single wave running upriver against the current on the biggest tides.
- MudbanksBrown water, suspended sediment, and the bar that moves.
- The confluenceWhere the Dordogne and Garonne become one estuary.
- Fishing hutsSquare nets on stilts, worked on the turn of the tide.