We had a fairly late start again and set off about 10ish,
the canal was very quiet and we only saw a couple of boats. The canal is still quite wibbly wobbly so Kev
negotiated the bends very well and today we were lucky as we didn’t meet any
boats on those bits.
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| Passing the Welford Arm |
Soon we were at the junction with the Welford Arm, we went
on past there as we are going to do that on the way back. Past North Kilworth Wharf where there were
quite a lot of boats moored, but plenty of room to pass.
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| Going through Wooded Section |
We went through a nice wooded section, large trees both
sides of the canal and then we were at Husbands Bosworth tunnel. The tunnel is 1,166yds long and was opened in
1813.
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| Approaching Husbands Bosworth Tunnel |
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| Coming out of the Tunnel |
We chugged into the tunnel and there was a boat coming the
other way, we went safely past him and we didn’t meet any more. There was one boat in front of us and one
behind. This tunnel was quite dry and so
Kev didn’t need his waterproofs today.
Before we knew it, we were coming out of the tunnel and started looking
for somewhere to moor as we wanted to walk up to the village of Husbands
Bosworth but there was no suitable places to moor so we chugged on.
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| Lovely reflection of original red brick bridge |
We tried a couple of times to get into the side but we didn’t
have any luck as we were scraping against rocks, so we went on through Bridge
50 and moored up not far past there where there was a few other boats
moored. We got into the side okay and it
was opposite farm land, so nice and open.
We will just chill out here for the rest of the day and chug
on tomorrow to Foxton where the staircase locks await us.
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| Moored at Bridge 50 |
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