It turned quite cold in the early hours this morning, both front and rears lids were frozen to their runners when we opened up this morning . The grass was white with the frost. and in one place, it was the only place, mist was rising from the canal, why that spot I have no idea.
We had a slightly embarrassing moment just before breakfast and found we had an empty water tank, thankfully the kettle was full, but there were a couple of water points within a 2 hour cruise of where we were. Again we met several boats out in the bright sunshine.
This canal has mile markers that stand very prominently out on the towpath showing the mileage to Leicester.
We stopped at Yelvertoft to fill with water. The water point is at the end of the long term moorings so gets used regularly. Some points get used very infrequently this time of the year so the water can lay in the main for a long time, I would rather use a well used one. A rather interesting row of cottages just passed the next bridge, probably all one house now, but its end on to the towpath and the gable end is angled to use all the land available.
On the offside just beyond her are some old Lime Kilns, they use to be much more over grown than this.
Sitting in the field by the winding holt adjacent to Crack’s Hill is this old Springer Narrowboat, its been here for as long as I can remember. The superstructure has been removed and now sits on a nearby trailer.
We carried to moor for the night in Crick to wander up the High street to the Co-op. I wouldn’t be surprised if we were not iced in very soon.
Today’s journey
4¼ miles with no locks in 2¼ hours.
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