We had rain in the night but when we woke up it was dry
which was good as we are moving on today.
When we set off, the sun was shining so we chugged on along the
canal.
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| Coming into Boggs Lock |
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| Going down Otherton Lock by M6 |
We are only going a few miles but we have five locks to
do. Soon we came to the first lock for
today and soon through there and onto the next one, Boggs Lock, then Rodbaston
Lock.
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| Passing Cross Keys Pub |
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| In Filance Lock |
There were a few boats coming the other way, so that helped
a lot. Soon we were going through
Otherton Lock which is right by the M6 motorway and then we were approaching
the outskirts Penkridge and chugged past the Cross Keys pubs which is right on
the canal.
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| Under a low bridge |
We did one more lock and then moored in the visitor moorings
before Penkridge Lock, we will save that one for another day!
The sun had been shining all morning and it was really warm
but there was rain forecast for the afternoon so we took our rain coats with us
when we went for a walk down the towpath to Midland Chandlers which was
probably about a mile and a half away.
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| Wow, that looks black! |
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| Sheltering from the rain |
We had a look around the Chandlers but when we came out the
sky had gone really black, so we decided to hot foot it back up the canal to
one of the bridges, it then started raining hard so we sheltered for a bit,
then made our made to the M6 Motorway Bridge and had to shelter there for a
while and then we heard loud claps of thunder which seemed to echo in the bridge
and sounded really scary! I don't know sitting under the M6 with rain and thunder all around, Kev certainly knows how to treat a girl, he takes me to all the best places!! It didn’t seem
like the rain was going to stop so we hurried back along the towpath sheltering
under the bridges along the way but the last stretch had no bridges and we got
soaked!
Back in the boat we dried off and after a while the rain
stopped and it was a dry evening.
We are having a day off tomorrow and staying here to look
around the town, then chugging on again on Thursday.
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| Moored at Penkridge |
What fun! As you say, he certainly knows how to spoil you :-)
ReplyDeleteLove the photo with the dramatic black sky. And the low bridge looks very tight …
We sheltered under that bridge again today but in the boat this time as raining all morning and we got soaked, but all dry now and the sun came out when we moored up, typical!
ReplyDeleteWe once sheltered under an almost-motorway bridge on the Walsall canal, in the middle of a four-hour thunderstorm. We couldn't get to the edge of the canal to moor (too many bullrushes) and there was nowhere to tie up under the bridge, so I held the ropes while John made us cuppa-soup!
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