Wiggins Hill Bridge

A little late getting away this morning with on other boats on the move, we stopped outside Fazeley Mill Marina to top up with water. No chance in walking in now from the towpath, its by boat or the main entrance on the road.
 

They are doing a lot of work inside the marina, I hope the moorers feel the benefit and their mooring fees don’t go up too much. BTW their diesel is still £1 Lt. domestic.

Passing through the swing bridge and under the footbridge at Drayton the cruiser left tied up on the offside has sunk again.

As we made our way to Curdworth bottom lock we passed this electricity post carrying HV cables, I wonder how long it will be before the power tracts to earth through the wet Ivy? It’s getting close.

Curdworth bottom lock was against us, would this be the way they will all be to the top. Then lock 10 was with us. Which one had leaked? As we approached lock 9 a hire boat had just come down, an American couple who told me they had turned all the locks ready for us. Even so some were half full and lock one right full.
The HS2 work is on going but not on Saturdays, I wonder what it costs having a couple of cranes sitting there on hire doing nothing?

  It will still be some time before they reach the canal by the look of it. A couple of locks further up the canal and the field on the offside is covered with shallow trenches, these are normally for an archeological study prior to a development. 
Once clear of the locks it wasn't far to Curdworth tunnel, I have never seen so many spider webs as there are in there, not even in Halloween decorations. Then passed the Cuttle Bridge Inn to moor for the night.
Much to our surprise the weather was quite good but the wind has picked up now and its quite chilly out there.

Today’s Journey

6¾ miles, 11 locks in 4½ hours.