Due to the weather forecast for today we set off a little bit earlier and almost got to Coventry Cruising Club before the very fine drizzle started, the sort where you don’t notice its raining but slowly get wet. By the time we reached Hawkesbury it was proper light rain and its been slightly heavier ever since.
We set of a little before 9-30 am. on the brightest mooring we have had for some time, However the barometer has dropped by 24mb over the past 24 hours, so it wouldn’t last.
The leaves are really falling now and a couple of times we have had to clear the prop. It will be an ongoing thing now until they rot away.
CRT have reenforced the towpath closer barrier leading to the area of the land slip but that has not stopped people forcing a way round up the embankment for some reason. I am not sure where they want to go along there.
There has also been a lot of work at the site of the slippage, all the old gabions removed and the land terraced and graded back, what look like foundations for a retaining wall have been laid behind the towpath.
At Rose Narrowboat a gent from the long term moorings who had just been getting containers of water to take back to his boat kindly opened and closed the bridge for us which save a stop and Diana doing it. I was able to compliment him on how nice they keep their mooring area. The last boat on the offside Rose moorings has an above ground fish pond complete with waterfall in what looks like small plunge pool. We carried on to Hawkesbury Junction hoping we could moor fairly close to the Greyhound for a very late lunch. When we arrived there was only one boat on the visitor moorings, another moored on the waterpoint and one on the area marked no mooring just beyond the lock, so not to far to walk later on this afternoon.
Todays Journey
7¾ miles with no locks in 2½ hours
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