Firstly an apology, last night we moored by Welton Haven Marina not Welton Field as I said.
Last time we came this way I mentioned the living mile posts, this is a better shot of the one by the marina entrance. I wish I could remember who was
We set off slightly earlier as we were heading up the Watford staircase locks and you can easily wait well over an hour there, but we timed in just right, a boat that had passed earlier was just entering the bottom lock and the Volockie said we could follow them. When we got to the top there were three boats waiting to come down and we met another two before we reached the tunnel. So a 10am. start and we would still have been there at mid day.
We met two boats in the tunnel as well as catching up with the boat ahead half way through, it was very lucky I saw him as the first boat coming towards us had a LED headlight so forward vision was difficult. We did the second half of the tunnel on tick over and almost as soon as we left the tunnel the boat ahead pulled over, so I don’t know if he had a problem of some sorts.
The land by Edwards at Crick is now all fenced off, including the narrowboat on the hard. The water point etc. are still accessible.
The sunken boat by the winding hole just beyond Crick is still there , I has a CRT ticket on it and an oil boom around the submerged outboard engine. Spring is really doing its best and this willow at Yelvertoft is all out in leaf. The photo was taken 
You may find the names of the places we moor a bit strange but as we tend to moor in the middle of nowhere I look for the nearest settlement on the OS map and use that. tonight its just north of bridge 32.
Today’s Journey
11¼miles 7 locks in 4¾hours
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