Congerstone

Last nights weather forecast was giving very high winds so we decided to turn the Dickinson stove off before going to bed just in case a back draft blew it out during the night. The result was this morning the boat was cold when I crawled out of bed and itwas snowing. only one thing to do, light the stove and head back to bed for a bit. I think we would have been OK over night as although we could hear the wind howling around we didn’t actually feel it on the boat, so it must have been above us.   Once we were finally up we went to the café for a full English breakfast. We then dropped back to the water point to fill with water. The rubbish facilities here are now bit of a mess since Biffa were replaced, just one bin

that doesn’t fit in the compound and is overflowing, but I suspect most or it is not boaters rubbish.

Once full of water  we chugged off past where we moored last night. The small white sign below the big blue one tells you not to have BBQs on the plastic decking.

As you can see by now most had the snow had gone and the wind had died away to nothing, but that didn’t last as it picked up as the day progressed. At one point the canal had a thick covering of floating leaves, but the smallest touch of reverse removes them from fouling the propeller.

 

On the off side just before you reach Bosworth Marina there has been a mammal barrier erected around the land between the canal and the railway. This is normally done prior to ant development to make sure no fury friends are in residence that need rehoming.

We pushed on to just before the visitor moorings at Congerstone, the reason for not using the visitor mooring was it was a lot windier through the bridge so we just dropped back a few yards.

Today we have a new map as we are on week 3 of the trip See Here  
the previous maps are here and here

Todays Journey 5¾ miles 2½ hours with no locks