Well it was still raining when we went to bed and we had over ¼” in total.
This morning was over cast and cold, only 8°C when we set off just after 10am. The boat we saw yesterday towing a wreck backwards is moored almost in the Bridge hole by the Barley Mow making the bridge/bend blind. As we passed the water point a boat was getting ready to leave and followed us until we moored up. We met lots of boats and a fisherman in All Oaks described it as the M25. Someone has erected a bird house by the All Oak moorings and several boats are moored to the new piling, despite it still being fenced off.
Work is finally underway to repair the road bridge just before Easenhall Cutting which has been in bit of a state for some years.
The grass is taking hold at t e site of the two landslides in the cutting, but the towing path surface still needs attention, especially the northern on with deep mud.
Due to passing the moored boats at Stretton Wharfe and meeting a boat coming the other way the boat following caught us up, so Diana was able to leave the boat yard swing bridge open for them, as it turned out a hire boat came the other way so he was tasked with closing it. We didn’t go much further, only to just beyond Grimes Bridge 26 where we moored for the night.
A little after 3PM the sun came out and the weather turned much better.
Today’s Journey 7 miles with no locks in 2½ hours
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