Smuggler's Last Day with Us

This is Smuggler’s last day with us as he is going home tomorrow.  He has been with us for two weeks and it has flown by, it has been lovely having him to stay.  We woke to lovely sunshine this morning, such a different day to yesterday.

Kev & Smugs by the tunnel

We had breakfast then we went out for our usual morning walk.  We went back along the canal to Wast Hills tunnel to have another look for the cache there but we still couldn’t find it.  You get clues to tell you where to look and one said that the container was tied on by cable ties and we found a broken cable tie so we think that the cache is no longer there which is a pity.

We walked back around the lane and road again and back to the boat, it is a nice circular walk.

Lower Bittell Reservoir

We had lunch and chilled out for a bit.  Smugs was asleep on the dinette and Kev saw a little face at the window and it was a cat.  Luckily it wasn’t the window near Smugs and he didn’t see it, as if he had then all hell would have broke loose, he hates cats and sees red if he sees one!  We then went out for our afternoon walk.  This time we walked down the canal to Lower Bittell reservoir, this is such a lovely area and we have never walked here before, also the sun was shining so that was good.  There was a cache there as well and after a bit of searching we found it.

He's down there somewhere!

We then walked on along the towpath picking up another cache on the way and walked to the aqueduct and went down the steps and found another cache then walked up the lane and onto the road.  This took us past a Cat Sanctuary, Smuggler’s favourite place, I think not!  He had a look down the drive but luckily there were no cats in sight.

We then walked back up the main road and back to the boat, another nice circular walk.

John and Sharon are coming here tomorrow to fetch Smuggler, then we are chugging back down to Alvechurch to go in the marina.

Cats - Let me at them!!