Foreshore near Sudbrook

“As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.”
Nicola Tesla

Headed off to Sudbrook with K1 in search of photos for the Family History journal. I went to a talk at Risca last Friday about Thomas A Walker, the civil engineer who completed the Severn Tunnel after it had flooded during construction in the nineteenth century. He’d gone on to build ships for his dock works in Buenos Aires, some of the artifacts and slipways still remain at Sudbrook. We had a mooch around the Tunnel Centre at Sudbrook to get more background on the story. There’s a sculpture of The Engineer at Black Rock picnic site, just up the coast – so we headed there next. There’s also a fantastic sculpture of a fisherman in the picnic area, absolutely incredible. We followed the path and before we knew it we’d reached Sudbrook! So I headed down to the shoreline to mooch around, plenty of interesting photos and also a view of the water from the Great Spring which gushes out into the Severn. Headed back for my afternoon coffee and cake at Caerwent, but nothing doing, nowhere open to get it. Starting to get really hungry now so we headed back towards Newport, stopping for a really good meal at Ego, a pub/restaurant at Penhow. After that it was time for a doze – must have been all that fresh sea air.