West of Ansty

As we were in Coventry last night we had a takeaway from Jinseon Korean restaurant. We have eaten in the restaurant a couple of times but I prefer a takeaway as it gives us lunch for the next day as well. Later in the evening we had a light rain shower as the temperature came up and this morning was fine. We only had one problem,  we were still too full to go for a full English at Playwrights, still next time.
It may have warmed up yesterday but I still wouldn’t fancy living in here.

We left at about half ten through the eye of the needle, bridge I. It was built like this with no towpath to stop thieving from the boats in the basin.

Up at bridge 3, William Henry Bridge we noticed that a piece of plastic gutter, used to support cables was hanging down when we passed yesterday so, today I made a point of stopping and refixing it, don’t ask how it came down as its not accessible from the towpath, only from a boat.

We stopped at Bridge 8 to visit the very large Tesco, just over the bridge and also have the remains of last nights meal. About an hour and a half later we were off again and I spotted something I hadn’t noticed down here before, a 3 mile milestone. I did keep looking but didn’t see one for 4 or 5.

We met a couple of boats on the Coventry Canal heading for the basin for the night.
A short way before Hawkesbury Junction there is a sign/sculpture just back from the towpath, as with the same cut out of the canal map from the Junction to the Basin.

At Hawkesbury Junction we turned onto the North Oxford canal having to pass through the Stop Lock. Rothen have completed work on the lock moorings on the Oxford side of the lock and very smart it looks.

We carried on for another half an hour to moor for the night midway between bridges 11 and 12. There is a short length of pilling her, just room for two boat and its the furthest point from the motorway this side of Ansty. As we were mooring up a water vole crossed to the offside of the canal, it made the journey underwater surfacing 4 times for a gulp of air, here is a photo of his last surfacing before reaching the safety of the far bank, sorry no photo of the vole.

 

 

Today’s Journey

8 miles with 1 lock in 3 hours