Downstream

minutes and found no one
there either. Many survived
the impact, he says, but died
in the river. The PLA now
have rafts that can be inflated
quickly to hold up to sixty
people. So far the only time
they’ve used them was to try
and save a whale.
Bob turns the boat around
and we head downstream. I
ask Steve what this scene
would have looked like in
Victorian times. ‘They had