Tuesday
9th to Wednesday 10th July
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| Fast flowing today |
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| At the services |
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| The Ford |
Tuesday – We stayed put and chilled
out. We walked to the house where they
sell eggs, but no one was home, so we walked around the corner where there is a
ford which runs across the road and it was running very fast today. We then walked up the other way as far as the
pub then decided to bring the boat up to here so Kev walked back and got the
boat. We stopped at the services to get
water and use the Elsan, then went under
the bridge and moored in the visitor moorings.
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| The Navigation Inn |
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| The Shanty Singers |
In the evening, we went to the pub for a meal, when we first went in,
the Landlord was not very friendly and made us feel like we shouldn’t be in
there but we persevered and it did get better as the evening wore on. The food was really good and the pub was done
out really nice. In the other bar, there
was five men singing canal and sea shanty’s so after we had eaten, we went in
there and listened to them, they were really good and sang lots of songs about
the canals and fly boats and when we went to square up the bill, the Landlord
was totally different and very chatty so perhaps we caught him at a bad moment
when we first arrived. His partner was
the chef and he was very outgoing and friendly, so in the end it turned out to
be a nice evening.
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| Waiting at the lock |
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| In the Bottom Lock |
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| In the Middle lock |
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| Coming into the top lock |
Wednesday – We are now making our way back
up the canal as we are booked to go back up the locks on Friday. We are going a couple of miles back to
Queen’s Head.
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| Clover Flower |
The sun was shining and it was very warm as
we set off along the canal. We have
three locks to do and soon we were approaching the first lock. Unfortunately it was full, so I had to empty
it first.
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| Comma Butterfly |
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| Dragonfly |
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| Insects eating the flowers |
These locks aren’t very deep so they don’t
take long to fill. Once through this
one, we were on to the next one. I
emptied the lock and soon we were coming up the lock and on our way to the
third lock. That one done we went on for
a short way and under a couple of bridges and moored up where we moored on the
way down.
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| Rednal Arm |
In the afternoon, we went for a walk along
the towpath to the Rednal Arm. Along
this stretch, there were many butterflies, insects and dragon flies, so nice to see. At Rednal Arm, there is a Basin and we were
hoping to walk down to it, but unfortunately there was no path, so we walked
back along the canal to a bench and sat there for a while then walked back to
the boat.
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| Ringlet Butterfly |
We are staying here tonight, then off back
up to the Weston Arm tomorrow to get water and get ready for our passage back
up the locks on Friday.
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| Moored at Queens Head |
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| Panoramic View of the Bottom Lock |
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