Well we are still moored in the same spot as last night but we have done ten miles today.
This was our mooring last night, we are the other way round now and no we didn’t eat in the pub.
Another sunny calm morning, not so warm as yesterday but by no means cold and it started without a breath of wind, this afternoon it has clouded over and there quite a breeze making it chilly.
We slid backwards out of the arm at about ten o’clock and headed along the Wyrley & Essington with a target of Sneyd Junction. Last time we were here they had just cleared the site opposite the branch, now there is a large building there.
Spring must be here as we passed at least 3 Coots nests and this one was sitting on a clutch of eggs.
There are several shopping trolleys in the cut just along from the shopping complex and also one of the post mounted solar powered outside lights, I was going to retrieve it but I suspect it is attached to the concrete base and would be rather heavy. We didn’t have any great problems navigating, the odd touch of reverse to through the odd bit of rubbish off the prop. I was rather taken with these signs. Its surprising the difference you see in back gardens, some make a welcoming feature, others look like builders yards or scrap yards, some are still gardened like a traditional back garden and some hidden behind high hedges or fences.
I winded at Sneyd Junction although there is a winding hole marked by the services about 100M. past the junction through the bridge, looking through I could see a boom across the arm by the end of the service and thought there may not be room, so after winding we reversed back through the bridge to fill up with water, it went OK once I goy out of the silt.
While the tank was filling I had a grovel down the weed hatch and removed a small amount of polly and some weed with fishing line in it from round the prop shaft. I think I had thrown the worst off reversing in the silt and giving it so back and forth welly, I do know we made better speed coming back.
Todays Journey
10 Miles, no locks in 4¼ hours
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