Couldn't they just call it a gully?
And what do they mean by a downriver-wind landing? Do they mean he is heading downriver or heading down wind or both?
The nose high attitude followed by the turn and then a nose low attitude whilst drifting aft has me imagining some disorientation and then recognition of aft drift which was corrected by shoving the nose forward.
Was he in fact affected by brown-out on approach as I had thought earlier?
That report hardly clears anything up and, as hot and hi says, isn't brilliantly worded.