Little Onn to Wheaton Aston - Shropshire Union Canal

 

Saturday 26^thJune

We were going to stay here another day and move tomorrow, but we have been inundated with small flies, there are hundreds of them all on the sides and roof of the boat and obviously they keep coming inside so it has been a full time job for me and Kev keeping them at bay with our fly swatters, there was bodies everywhere!  Due to this we are moving on today and hopefully leaving all the flies behind.

We set off from our mooring and headed along the canal.

                                                   

This section is very wooded and the trees looked like arches over the canal in places.  Also the bird song along here was just wonderful, I wish I had recorded it, so lovely to hear them all singing, just would be nice to know what birds we heard but we are not very good at recognizing individual birds.

                                                                                                             

We chugged along and went over an aqueduct and on along the canal and under a few bridges.

We went past a line of moored boats then was approaching Wheaton Aston.  We went under a couple more bridges and moored up in the visitor moorings opposite The Hartley Arms pub.

                                                    

Dawn and Adrian were moored in front of us.  Dawn is a roving trader called Hooked Afloat and makes knitted and crocheted items.  Kev made them a sign of their boat name for their mooring.  We had a chat to them, it was nice to see them again as our paths haven’t crossed for a while.

                                                     

                                                                                                     

In the afternoon we walked through the village to the two shops, a small village shop and a Spar.  The Spar is opposite the small church so we bought an ice cream and sat in the square by the church to eat it.

On the way back to the boat and as it was a lovely sunny warm day,  we stopped off at The Hartley Arms for a drink and sat on the benches overlooking the canal.

We are staying here for a couple of days now then on Tuesday we will move on to Brewood.