It turned cold again over night dropping below freezing, there was even a sprinkling of snow but this morning it was bright sun shine. We were off about 1030 and met two boats in quite quick succession. It was also a day of dicky birds. First a Kestrel quickly followed by a Buzzard and then a Sparrow Hawk. This was all in the first 20 minutes.
Later in the day it was a King Fisher, I thought something had fallen in the canal but then it sprang out of the water and into a tree, It looked a bright green rather than blue. Confession time I tried to photo them all and failed miserably.
At the end of the Ashby we turned right on the Coventry Canal. It looks as if they are building a housing from just beyond Marston Junction right up to the existing houses on the edge of Atherstone. Although the sun was out it was still cold and the white was hanging around where the sun hadn’t caught it.
One for you Aeronautical folk out there, this flew right over our head.
Just beyond Mancetter Marina there is the remains of a tree that must have come down in the latest storm, it couldn’t have happened in a more useful spot as its owned by the Rother Groupe and just round the corner they were removing it.
Our plan was to moor near the top of Atherstone Locks, but as we passed under bridge 30 it was nose to tail moorings and when we got to the next bridge we could see it continued so we reversed back passed all the mooring and through the bridge to moor for the night.
Todays Journey 11 miles in 4 hours with no locks.
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Interested to see that the dakota flew over you, it was flying over us at the Atherstone Heritage motor show in mid September, it must be based somewhere nearby perhaps. Facebook link if you do fb, https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.facebook.com%2Fatherstone.motorshow%2Fposts%2F%3Fref%3Dpage_internal
googlable on images dakota atherstone heritage if not! Thanks for your blogs, they make lovely reading
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