RIVERDAVE was attending Durham High School in the sixties as the movement to protect the Eno River began to gather momentum.  When the parklands took shape in the seventies and eighties, he worked in Southwest Asia as a linguist and pursued his wild side by exploring the tropical oases of the Syrian-African Rift Valley.  In 1989 he returned to his hometown of Durham where he retrained as a local naturalist.

      Riverdave formally launched Wafting the Eno River on Earth Day 1990, a local environmental education program offering our community a remedy for that rapidly spreading modern malaise known as nature deficit disorder. Riverdave's philosophy of wafting is based on a principle of energy flow and sympathy with nature elucidated in the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau, 19th century naturalist, transcendental philosopher and social critic.  Due to conditions beyond his control, Wafting the Eno offered its last outing in October of 2008 and has now evolved into a new program called Tree Camp, yet still another remedy for nature deficit disorder.