Weedy

For the most part, my childhood memories of the forests' streams are of sheer sided bare gravel bedded waterways, faster flowing than today, the straightened drains of the Victorian forestry age. The streams of today are different. Increasingly over the years since the program to restore the forests' streams and stream-lets to their original meandering courses, the flow has slowed and river weeds have slowly begun to colonize their beds, their banks now a feast of flourishing flora. They've regained their natural ambience. As a consequence the streams appear alive with life, far better stocked fish, which in turn has seen Herons and Egrets regularly fishing their waters. And it the scheme of things these restoration projects are relatively new, I imagine things will only get better.