Return to Tarzan's Pool
The death of my river keeping mentor, Vic Foot, lead to me walking the entire length of 'my river' - the river Test - from source to sea.
Born and bred on the chalk streams of Hampshire and a River Keeper of 40 years now working on the upper Test. Nowadays spend as much time shouting at water companies as I do cutting ranunculus.
The death of my river keeping mentor, Vic Foot, lead to me walking the entire length of 'my river' - the river Test - from source to sea.
Trying to undo two hundred years of tradition, not always good, on the chalk streams is tough for a newer generation of river keeper. Permits, paperwork and pointless permission doesn't help.
We need to do more, we need to shout louder, we need the courage to stand up and talk