Ebb and Flow

Creative Walk, Stepping Out 2019

Ebb and Flow is a unique, shared journey for groups of 20 people, walking 3 miles through the ever changing landscape of the Taw / Torridge Estuary. It includes creative interludes – listening to recorded sounds, ridiculous role playing, chalking the stones and eating cockles. In particular, it considers how this is a place of constant change…

..from the courageous flights of migrating birds made to and from this place each year (the sanderling can make it as far as Greenland!), to the almost unfathomable scale of geological movement – 300 million years ago, the land beneath our feet was 9,000 miles away, near the tropical equator and the human impulse to travel beyond the horizon. 

Creative Team

  • Guides: Fiona Fraser Smith & Paschale Straiton
  • Outside Eye: Katie Etheridge
  • Sound: Ed Jobling
Photo by Jim Wileman

Ebb and Flow was presented in both the Northam Burrows and Braunton Burrows, thanks to support from Northam Burrows Country Visitors Centre and Christies Estates.


What is creative walking? An essay

Making Ebb and Flow – our creative process