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| Leaving Alvechurch |
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| Smugs in the dry before the rain! |
We are on the move today and guess what it’s raining, but
not very much, although it was quite heavy in the night. When we set off it had stopped so that was
good and it was quite bright but it didn’t last for long and it started
raining, not heavy but Smuggler who was outside with Kev asked to come in, he
didn’t want to get wet!
We chugged on from Alvechurch, past the Crown Meadow Arm
which branches to the east – no boats are allowed to enter and it remains a
quiet haven for wildlife.
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| Passing the Crown Meadow Arm |
We then came to Lower Bittell Reservoir which is a lovely
spot but unfortunately there are only long term moorings so no place to
stop. The reservoir looked quite low.
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| Passing the Reservoir |
We chugged on past there and soon we were coming into
Hopwood, we went under the bridge and turned around as we are going back to
Alvechurch on Wednesday to go back to Weston on Thursday and then moored up in
the visitor moorings.
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| Lower Bittell Reservoir |
The last part of our journey had been dry but shortly after
we moored up, it rained again so that was lucky.
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| All storks should bring these! |
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| Wast Hills Tunnel |
We had lunch, waited for the rain to pass then went for a
walk along the canal to Wast Hills Tunnel as there was a cache near the
entrance. Kev went down the steps to
have a look but no luck so we walked on up to the road. We might have another look tomorrow weather
permitting.
We walked along the lane and had a good view of the tunnel
from the bridge, it was good to see it from here as usually we only see it from
the canal. The lane led us to the main
road and we walked down there and was soon back at the canal and the boat.
We are now staying here until Wednesday as Smugger is going
back home then and John and Sharon are coming here to fetch him and then we are
off back to Alvechurch marina to leave the boat there for a couple of days
while we go back to Weston for my consultant appointment.
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| Moored at Hopwood |
That's our boy! No point getting wet when he doesn't need to :-)
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