Dog and Doublet

After the heavy rain yesterday evening it turned into a clear sky with bright stars and aircraft flying over, Birmingham is quite a busy airport.
This morning it started a little misty but it was soon a clear still day, with not a ripple on the water.

This poor old electricity pole is suffering from a bit of tooth ache, its quite surprising how far out of true they can go and still carry on doing what they were designed to do.

We picked up a few free riders as we went through Curdworth tunnel, I find it annoying when they land on my cap and then abseil of the peak in front of my face. Yes spiders.

In the field on the off side just by Baylis Bridge there are lots of shallow trenches, these are normally the sign of a large development about to take place.

Curdworth Top Lock had a short stoppage this week while CRT inserted some new boards in the top gate to close up lots of leaks, the top 6” of the gate was full of holes.

I am not sure what is happening at Fox’s Bridge with all the white weather proof covering, the bridge doesn’t look used unless there is a gas main cross the lock on the side of the bridge.

And then down at Curdworth lock 2. A nice shot of it from just before Willday’s Farm Bridge. I wonder if the nearby farm was owned by a Mr. William Day.

By the lock on the offside the field was full of detectorists, it must have been a club event with all their motors parked down near the CRT building by lock 4. They were so spread out over the field I could only get 4 in a shot, but there was well over a dozen of them and it’s not just a male pastime.

We carried on down the flight with all but two locks against us to moor outside the Dog and Doublet for the night. Since we have been moored up, the sun has come out, two boats have come up the flight and one down. They are the first boats we have seen moving since 10 am yesterday morning when the three of us left Star City at the same time.

Today’s Journey

 

3 miles with 8 locks in 2½ hours.