Apple Bobbing on the River Wye?

 Mary & I were walking to the AGM of CPRE Herefordshire that includes a stretch of the River Wye as it passes through the city of Hereford. We noticed some green vegetative matter and the odd log in the water but didn't stop to investigate as we would have been late for the meeting. Some 2½ hours later, we returned along the same stretch of river bank to see the same scene (Video 1).

Video 1: Apple Pollution

This time we could identify the nature of the pollution as apples, and more specifically, cider apples for which Herefordshire is famous.

This is the view from the Hunderton Bridge, formerly a railway bridge but now carrying the Great Western Way cycle/pedestrian path over the River Wye. The raft of apples can be seen (Photo 1) in the distance towards the right bank* ...

Photo 1: Looking Downstream Towards the New & Old Bridge

... and a little clearer (Photo 2) when zoomed in ...

Photo 2: Close-up of the Floating Apples

[* the left and right banks of a river/stream are assigned in the normal way when looking downstream; when looking upstream, the right bank will now be on your left and the left bank on your right] 

We hadn't seen or heard anything about an apple bobbing competition and, as far as I knew, Westons Cider were not using river transport as a means of getting the apples from the orchards to the cider mill. Best guess is that a riverside cider orchard was flooded, due to recent heavy rains, and the apples, along with a few fallen branches (see foreground of Photo 1), floated off into the river. There were a lot of apples and, according to a local angler, this was a recurring phenomenon.