22nd September 2015. Croxley Green to Harefield Marina.

Drizzle first thing this morning but, rather unexpectedly, it was mostly dry and we pottered along nicely. We have got into a routine doing the locks along here on our own. Lots of moored boats, of varying degrees of dilapidation and peculiarity.

What were they thinking?!!

And we found the reason for the no swimming sign we saw yesterday...

At Copper Mill lock there was a lock-keeper as building work was being done around it. The white water looked more scary than it was.

 

We made our way to Harefield Marina which is tucked away just past Widewater lock; a journey of 4.5 miles with 8 locks. We are going home for a few days and want to leave the boat somewhere secure. The Marina is not the most modern we have seen but it has thriving bird population.

 



A heron and cormorants clearly don't mind the more tatty bits of the marina.