Only to stop again just after the bridge to one of boating's least pleasant jobs, emptying the holding tank for the loo. After which we filled up with water and set off again only to stop a few hundred yards further on to take on provisions.
As this is a commercial canal still, I donned an old works T shirt and set off, very apt as we passed very close to the Dentressangle depot at Gloucester on our way.
There are many swing bridges on this canal, the widest and deepest in the world when it was completed. So all the bridges spans are large, all are manned but not all of them have to be opened because you can slip underneath some of them while closed in a narrow boat, but not this one.
Every bridge has a keepers house adjacent to it, and very grand they are too.
Every bridge has a keepers house adjacent to it, and very grand they are too.
The canal was very quiet we didn't see another narrow let alone a working boat. Until this appeared around a corner on a collision course!
That was nothing compared to mooring up between two other boats in a howling tail wind, not a elegant arrival but any mooring you can step ashore from is a good one.
Tomorrow? pictures from the seaside.
That was nothing compared to mooring up between two other boats in a howling tail wind, not a elegant arrival but any mooring you can step ashore from is a good one.
Tomorrow? pictures from the seaside.
