Drayton Bassett to Kingsbury Water Park (Birmingham & Fazeley Canal)

We are only going a short hop today around a mile!!  We want to visit the Kingsbury Water Park which is at the bottom of Curdworth locks.  It was another lovely sunny warm day as we set off along the canal to the moorings by Kingsbury Water Park, in under an hour we were there and mooring up.

Kingsbury Water Park is a 600-acre landscaped park containing 30 lakes and ponds, created from gravel pits worked over the last 50 years.  There are marked out walks and nature trails along with fishing, horse riding, sailing, power-boating and wind surfing.  There is a also a visitor centre and café.

Minature Railway Tunnel

Railway Station

One of the paths into the park leads from the canal, so we set off along it.  We walked past a few ponds where there was lots of ducks, geese, swans and a few grebes.  We followed the path under the M42 and then through the woods and over a railway line and past a railway tunnel and eventually we came to the visitor centre and café where the station is for the miniature railway.

Bodymoor Heath Water

We had a coffee in the café then walked down to the big lake called Bodymoor Heath Water and sat by the water for a bit.  We then walked back along a different path back under the Motorway and came to a hide by one of the lakes.  We sat in there for a while watching the wild fowl, there was some lapwings, some cormorants and plenty of ducks.

Robin by the Water

We walked on along the path and came to another hide.  We went in there and there was a couple of people inside and they said they had just seen a Kingfisher, so we waited for a bit to see if it would come back and sure enough it did.  It sat on a branch and kept diving down into the water, it was really great to see and I think the longest time we have seen a Kingfisher for as usually you just see a flash of blue as they dart by.

We carried on along the path and it came out on the canal just down from where we are moored.

We are staying here tomorrow as well as we want to have another walk around the park, a different part this time and as the forecast is for another dry sunny warm day, we are going to take a picnic, that will be nice and let’s hope we are lucky enough to see the Kingfisher again.

Moored at Kingsbury Water Park