Saturday, May 11, 2019

The last leg

A local swan family turned out to see us off from our Wednesday night mooring, the cygnets falling over themselves in their excitement. At least, that's how it looked!


It's an eleven lock/mile trip from there to Buckby Top Lock. We stopped at Weedon for supplies. This couple were begging at the side of the canal.


The journey was slow but beautiful, punctuated by the odd drop of inoffensive rain. Buckby Flight was even slower but, as usual, we were in no hurry.





As usual, we moored below Buckby Top Lock for our last night of the cruise, opposite NB Comfortably Numb.


Moving on the next day, we found Watford Locks empty apart from us and one other boat three locks ahead. We had the assistance of two volunteer lockies all the way up, three of them for the last two locks, so it was a speedy and sociable ascent.


Unlike the ones at Stowe, these swans were totally indifferent to us.


Crick Tunnel was the wettest place we'd been that day, but we'd pretty much dried out by the time we got to Yelvertoft. We'd had a really good trip. Five weeks in one stretch, amounting to more cruising time than we'd had in the whole of last year!

What's the most striking thing about being back? The kettle boils really quickly!!


2 comments:

  1. Only five weeks, it's seems an age since we parted ways at Norton Junction. Looks like you had a decent cruise though.

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  2. (23/04/2020) I didn't see this comment, Phil. Thanks for helping me discover why I've not been getting any at all!

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