It was surprisingly quiet last night, much quieter than we expected but we did hear the rain and ended up over sleeping this morning, thankfully its been dry all day today. Ether CRT or more likely their volunteers have trimmed all the vegetation along the moorings. Also the the grass has been edged back from the brickwork down the locks and everything worked.
The water by the moorings and down the locks was gin clear and you could see the bottom all the way across the cut when it was still.It was getting for 10-30am. before we set off and working the top lock a CRT chap informed me that all the pounds were fine but probably all the locks would be against us and he wasn’t far wrong, there were probably 5 maybe 6 with us, all the rest needed turning. On the offside by the top lock there is this box in the wall, Does anyone know what its for, possibly a lock counter?
A new sign has popped up at most of the locks down the flight, not sure why they missed the odd one or two, will we be seeing them beside every lock on the system? I would have thought that anyone without the sense to know you could fall into a lock wouldn’t have the sense to know what the sign means.
Our journey down the flight was slower than normal as I worked all the locks, we even stopped for a bite of lunch in the long pound, needless to say mooring on the lock landing didn’t inconvenience anyone. Once down the flight we turned right on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal and moored for the night near Autherley Junction. Since we have been moored one boat has gone by and one moored just ahead of us, so another busy day.
Todays Journey 2½ miles, 21 locks in 4½ hours
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