We had heavy rain overnight followed by a frost early this morning so went I went out to put the flags up they were frozen to the roof so had to be left for a bit, the grass was white in places and even very smell patches of ice at the edge of the canal. We were away about 10 am and it wasn’t long before we passed a moored boat, it was the one that came by yesterday evening. We only saw two boats on the move all day, both going from Gailey to Penkridge, the first then returning and mooring just ahead of us.
The crocodiles are out in force in this part of the world, we passed a second one today.
In Suffolk there is a property known as The House in the Clouds at Thorpness, House in the Clouds | Self Catering Holiday Accommodation |Suffolk
today we saw a model one in a garden.
We stopped at Penkridge to fill with water, I can report the tap has good pressure and the toilet spotless, also the signs on the little posts telling you not to moor to them have gone, but I have never seen so many signs on a waster disposal site, or should I call it a recycling facility. This was just the door, they are round the end as well.
It was just after this that we met the first boat of the day, they were winding and going back to Gailey, so meeting us they expected all the locks to be against them. This is one expense that CRT could really do without and its happening more and more, lets hope they can claim off the drivers insurance if they know who it was.
At Gailey Lock I noticed lots of books on the windowsill of the service block, but unfortunately the door was locked and a notice saying “services out of order on the elsan disposal door. We only went a few hundred yards further along the canal to the 2 day visitor moorings where we found a spot with no tree cover, this will do us for the night.
Todays Journey
7½ miles, 10 locks in 4½ hours
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