A solo visit to Beverton Pond in the Brendon Hills which is the official 'source' of the River Tone. The source being the longest visible thread of water in the catchment - and maybe a spring, water rising from underground?
I spent time exploring the plants.
In September 2024, as you can see in video below, the pond then was dry. I was walking across this strange algal surface that was slightly puffed up, it didn’t quite fit, felt like a baggy jumper!
The Tone wiggles her way south towards Wellington and then easterly towards Taunton before curving up towards Burrow Mump, where she meets the River Parrett and together they flow north to the Severn estuary (with thanks for the map somersetrivers.uk).
Across the road, in the next field, the nascent River Tone performs this tiny delightful waterfall. Despite the dryness of the pond, here was already a flow of energetic and bright water starting out (can water ever be said to be starting ?) on a 31 mile journey as part of this river.