6.5 miles and 9 locks today. Cloudy, windy and a bit chilly but dry. Jo realised she was wearing 5 layers and it's only October! We filled up with water at (or rather in as that's where the tap is) the wonderfully named Carthagena lock. Then it was Dobbs Weir, remembered fondly by us both for different reasons, and onto Feildes Weir lock where we emptied the loo and took a sharp right turn onto the river Stort.
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| The road not taken; view up the Lea as we turned right onto the Stort. |
The Stort is very pretty but definitely a rural river with not many suitable mooring places.
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| Hunsdon Meads nature reserve. |
We saw no boats coming the other way and only also one making it's way behind us. The locks are too narrow for two boats (but at 13 foot much wider than one boat) which makes them awkward to use as both gates have to be opened and shut each time but there's no easy hopping across the boat. Fortunately they all have bridges so Jo earned her pie tonight doing all the locking. We eventually stopped outside the Moorhens pub on the outskirts of Harlow. A nice day with interesting sights and a satisfactory amount of effort!
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| Cottage at Brick Lock. |
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| Houses on stilts at Roydon. |
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| Handsome buildings at Parndon Mill |
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