Friday 28th
August
We were glad to see
the rain had stopped and it was dry when we got up, although it was felt more
like October than August.
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| Cormorant in the Canal |
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| No Sun Today |
We untied and set
off along the canal, we are just going a few miles today to Gnosall.
We went under a few
bridges and past another line of moored boats.
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| Coming to High Onn |
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| Cormorant Taking Off |
In the water ahead
of us was a Cormorant, don’t see many of them around so nice to see. He kept diving down and coming up ahead of
us, then flying ahead a short distance and landing in front of us again. We then came to a bridge where a boat was
coming the other way so the Cormorant went into the bushes and then goes off
over the canal.
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| More Moored Boats |
We went on along the
canal and came to Cowley cutting which is cut out of rock and quite narrow and
leads to Cowley tunnel which is only 81yds long but was originally intended to
be much longer, 690yds, but most of it was opened out at an early stage during
construction in 1831 because of dangerous faults in the rock and now only the
81yds remain.
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| Overhanging Trees |
We were soon through
the tunnel and went under one more bridges and moored in the moorings opposite
the Boat Inn.
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| Cowley Tunnel |
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| In Cowley Tunnel |
We then walked into
the village up to the Coop. We came out
and it was pouring with rain, luckily we had taken umbrellas with us. We walked back down to The Bakery, although
they do sell bread, it sells everything, a great shop.
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| Cutting cut out of the Rock |
We walked back to
the boat in the rain, although it had eased off quite a bit. We had rain on and off most of the afternoon.
We are staying here
for a few days now and hopefully will set up shop over the weekend and do some
trading, the weather forecast is for dry sunny weather so let’s hope they are
right and people will come out and about and we will make a few sales. Also our friend Bill and his little dog
Peanut, who we met up with a while ago is on his way back down this canal and
will be arriving here in Gnosall tomorrow so no doubt we will have a catch-up
and a beer with him!
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| Moored at Gnosall |
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