“Half a mile offshore, walking on silver water, we found a curved path that extended gracefully and without apparent end to our north and south. It was a shallow tidal channel and the water it held caught and pooled the sun, such that its route existed principally as flux; a phenomenon of light and of currents.” Robert Macfarlane. Allegedly, the “most perilous byway in England”, it is thought to have killed over 100 people, with many of the bodies unrecovered. Victims become disorientated in the misty light that enchanted Macfarlane, then trapped by the mud or quicksand, before being inundated by the rising tide.