It was somewhat cold last night with the boat covered in ice before we went to bed and everywhere was white with frost when we got up but the sun soon took the edge off that. Again it was dead still with mist rising off parts of the canal.
There was very very thin ice in places with a grove cut through it by a boat that came by before we were ready to leave. We did meet a boat on the move at Marston Junction, I gave a couple of blasts on the horn and he waited while we exited, he in turn then turned down the Ashby under our stern.
As you can see from this boat on the Coventry Canal the wind speed was zero.
At Bulkington Bridge 14 a team of volunteers were busy installing a new hand rail up the bridge side access stairway as well as trimming overhanging branches and bushes.
Since we came this way last week two things have happened:- All the grass has been stripped off the land on the Offside in an enclosed area between Hawkesbury and Bedworth.
The other was that they were obviously successful raising the sunken boat on the long term mooring as its no longer there sitting on the bottom.
At Hawkesbury Junction we carried straight on heading for Coventry Basin.
The Poplar tree I commented on last trip is still standing by the towpath and I think this photo shows its height better than the last photo I took.
After this I got bit of a surprise with a Fox curled up in the sun on the offside, I didn’t have time to get the camera out but I did point it out to Diana, then after about another hundred meters there was another, then would you believe we then saw a third, so I expect they are all one family. We carried on down into the basin and as we passed under bridge 1 there is a nice little garden.
There was only one other boat moored in the basin when we arrived but there is a tent right beside where we lie to moor, so we are on the other side rather than sitting by his door.
Today’s Journey
10¾ miles with no locks in 3½ hours
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