I looked out this morning and someone had been dusting the place with flour, well it did go down to -3 last night and was still freezing at 10AM.
It was 11 before we got away, when we came out 2 weeks ago I noticed a water leak on a hose running beside the field, I expect it feeds a drinker for the horses that live there, well this morning this was the result of that very fine water mist all night.
I can't remember the last time the pressure was this high and not a drop of wind. the canal is just like a mirror.
Yesterday it was starlings on the wire, well today its white doves all swinging together at Orchard Marina.
We stopped at Anderton Services to fill with water and dump the rubbish before continuing on past the Anderton Lift and through Barnton Tunnel, we had a 15 minute wait before we could enter Saltersford Tunnel at 3PM. We weren't expecting to be able to come up here as CRT had planned a stoppage for the 2 January, but that has been deferred for a couple of weeks. Progress this afternoon has been a bit troublesome. Picking up debris at every bridge hole and vibration on the rudder, so after we moored it was a quick nose down the weed hatch, it the clear water I could see the problem straight away, a B&M reflective jacket round the prop, They are quite strong and the blades of the prop had gone through an arm hole a couple of times, but I fiddled it off, no way could I tear it out.
Today's Journey
11½ miles in 4¾ hours.
No comments:
Post a Comment