It's not every day you can kayak across football pitches, over barbed wire fences and under a motorway.
But that's what a group of fishermen have done after making the most of extraordinary flooding caused by Storm Dennis.
Usually found wading out into the Severn Estuary carrying hand-made fishing nets, the historic Black Rock lave net fishermen opted for a different route when the water levels rose dramatically high in Caldicot.
Martin Morgan, 59, said: "We had been waiting for this to happen, it's a rare event.
"We have been watching and watching and we had Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis and then this rain and the water shot up.
"We decided then to have a go on the kayaks. It was quite surreal. It's devastating, on the football clubhouse the water was about one metre up the wall.
"Going underneath the M48 motorway the water there was about 10, 12 feet deep. We were able to touch the underneath of the road with our paddes.
"We were able to cross a footbridge, go over barbed wire on fields where we normally walk our dogs."
Together, fishermen Martin Morgan, brother Richard Morgan, Dale Kedward and Paul Watkins spent around three hours on the water retracing the course once taken by the Neddern stream.
Martin said: "Once the Neddern [stream] was a river. Back in Roman times it would have been filled up to the banks to Caerwent. Normally in summer, autumn and most of winter you look and it's just flat with reens up to the top of the Estuary, but when you get rare events that water balloons up.
"Off we went, we went over fences, over barbed wire. We have Caldicot Castle and you can see why that castle was built on the edge of the water.
"It's quite surreal. You can imagine people coming from the estuary and making their way inland.
"It was very peaceful. The amazing thing was the amount of wildlife we were seeing and the birds. There is normally a fair bit but there was thousands and thousands that have been attracted to the river now."
Tonight, the men will return to the flooding to repeat their journey - but this time in a coracle.
You can find out more about the Black rock lave net heritage fishery, and what they do, here.
Marin said: "It was an absolutely fantastic experience, we might never be able to do it again. There is more rainfall forecast but this was an exceptional level of rainfall. I think people will probably go down on Saturday or Sunday and see the water level will probably have dropped.
"We are very safety conscious, most of our clan kayak down on the Severn Estuary and we've got all the gear.
"We took our time we went around the football pitch several times."
