Well it rained well into the night and early hours this morning. We set off shortly before 10am. and we soon had a very light drizzle, enough to make you put a coat on, but thankfully it didn’t last long and occasionally we had a bit of sunshine. Almost as soon as we set off we were going through Newbold Tunnel, this isn’t the original tunnel, the bricked up mouth of that can be seen in the church yard.
Looking back you can see its dead straight, nice and wide with a towpath on both sides.
At Stretton Stop one of Rose Narrowboat employees kindly opened the bridge for us, so that saved Diana hoping off and on.
On our way out I mentioned the Black water before Ansty, today this pipe was discharging black water about 200Mt. north of the motorway bridge 25 on the offside. However there was not a mile of black water today, so maybe it only discharges sometimes, or maybe its nothing to do with it.
Just before Coventry Cruising Club on the offside it looks as if someone has dug a fishing lake.
You can just see the rail fencing around it, lets hope it holds water because its just a hole in the ground at the moment. Just after this there was a mischief of Magpies on the ground.
It was then passed the high voltage distribution site where there is a lot of work going on, probably installing more transformers and on to Sutton Stop. As there was nothing moving and lots of moorings we decided to fill with water before mooring, big mistake, a small cruiser came through the lock and moored where I was going to go and then another boat came from Ansty and moored just behind them so I had to reverse back and moor right on the bendy bit, two nice straight bits missed
Todays Journey
11½ miles, no locks in 4¼ hours
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