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| Heavy Rain Shower |
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| Chugging through Alrewas |
Last night we had a really heavy rain shower and a few claps of thunder, it didn't last for very long but it dropped the temperature by about 10 degrees and made it much more comfortable. Today the sun was shining as we set off from Alrwas this morning,
we passed lots of moored boats this is a very popular mooring spot, around the
corner we went and then we were at Bagnall Lock, the first of four locks we are
doing today. The lock was full so I went
up and emptied it and Kev came in with the boat.
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| In Bagnall Lock |
The bottom gates on this lock won’t stay shut so I shut one
and went to do the other and the one I had shut opened again. Luckily a boat was coming down, so the lady
came down and she shut one and I shut the other but then there was no-one to
open the paddle at the other end to fill the lock so Kev started to get out. The lady’s husband then strolled down to the lock
without a windlass I should mention and she was shouting to him to help but he
seemed to be in a world of his own! He
then twigged and started running back to the boat to get a windlass but she
said take mine, so he did. By this time Kev was out of the boat with the rope
and Kev did say to the chap just open the paddle a bit just to keep the gates
shut, but guess what he ran to the paddle and opened it full before we could
stop him and the boat surged forward, but somehow Kev managed to hold the boat
so it didn’t crash into the top gate, lucky he did as Kev said if he couldn’t
have held it and it was close, that chap would have got a mouth full! I don’t think he thought he had done anything
wrong.
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| Approaching Common Lock |
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| Hunt's Lock all ready for us |
We were soon at that lock and left the Gung Ho Idiot behind
us and on we went along the canal to Common Lock where there was a boat coming
out, so that made easy going and soon we were at Hunt’s Lock where there was
another boat coming down so soon through that one as well.
We had one more lock to do and there was a volunteer on that
one. We had to wait for a work boat to
come through then it was our turn.
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| Chugging onto Keeper's Lock |
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| Fradley Pool Nature Reserve |
We were then at Fradley Junction and we moored up in the
visitor moorings before the next lock.
We will save them for another day.
We had lunch then went for a walk up to the top of the locks
stopping in the café on the way up for coffee and to sit by the water watching
the boats go up and down. On the way
back past the café we got an ice-cream and then went for a walk around Fradley Pool Nature Reserve then back to the boat.
It has been a lovely sunny day but this evening it has gone
very overcast so maybe another rain shower might be on the way.
We are staying here tonight then chugging on tomorrow.
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| Moored at Fradley Junction |
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