Cloudy and a bit chilly this morning. With a good mooring at the pub garden we decided to give Harold a wash - he hadn't had one since our visitors at Foxton locks. Jo did the bank side and Robin the canal side (he is always the more adventurous) and we shared the roof and the ends!
No sign of the sun but we set off anyway about 1'oclock on our shiny boat. All very rural and peaceful.
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| The road ahead..... |
5 miles and 12 locks then achieved, the locks mostly spaced out evenly. We did some with another boat and others on our own. The locks here all have a distinctive 'candlestick' paddles which we haven't seen before.
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Robin and a candlestick!
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We have seen lots of young adult creatures this trip; swan families with a posse of big brown cygnets, lone dusty coloured moorhens not yet grown shiny back feathers and red beak, ducklings nearly as big as their mothers but with half feathers and half fluffy down. Today this young rabbit popped out of the bushes as we stopped at a lock. He seemed quite healthy and happily grazed at the lock-side as we took the boat through.
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