It rained on and off most of the night I think but was fine when we set off at 10am this morning, things were very quiet to start with but after an hour or so we started meeting a few boats, nothing like yesterday.
We passed the junction with the abandoned Newport Canal, there are plans to restore the canal which joins the Shrewsbury canal, if it ever gets done it will be a long length of waterway. At the moment the Norbury Junction Boat Yard uses about 200 yards of the canal which is in water terminating in their dry dock.
A short way passed the junction looking to the East these structures can be seen peeping above the trees, it’s not MI5 or such like but an experiment into climate change and exposure to CO2 in the atmosphere.
As we chugged along we passed through Gnosall, loads of empty visitor moorings today and CRT giving some young people angling experience.
You may remember 3 weeks ago I posted a photograph of a Peahen, well today there was a peacock there as well as several hens, this was at Little Onn.
Just after this it started to rain a bit, enough to put the brolly up but by the time we came to moor at Wheaton Aston it had stopped, but not for long, now its warm, muggy but not raining.
Todays Journey
7¾ miles, no locks in 3 hours
This is a link to our latest plan that could change yet again of course
https://canalplan.uk/journey/17997_cp
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