Cornish Wreckers and cricket in the mud

St Dominic, Tamar Valley They dance the length of the expanding bank, like a strange flock of black-feathered waders in the distance

On the day with the lowest tide of the year, people converge on the river banks just upstream of Halton Quay. Here, on the Cornish side by Chapel Farm (reputed to be the site of a religious settlement founded by the parish's patron saint and her brother from Ireland), holm oaks overhang the stony beach and derelict lime-kiln.

Opposite, by North Hooe, shining mud banks are edged with an expanse of pale reeds. Support boats from the Cargreen Yacht Club ferry participants across the choppy water of the ebbing tide towards a sandbank that is revealed only at extremely low tides. Over there, near to Devon, the Wreckers morris side, in black and gold tatters, dance the length of the expanding bank, like a strange flock of black-feathered waders in the distance.