Another good meal and quiet night at The Trout, no where near as busy as Saturday afternoon/evening.
We were off just after 10 am, not quite as quiet as yesterday with 5 Narrowboats, 1 Cruiser and 1 SUP we also saw several lock keepers, one checked the licence and one mentioned switching off engines in locks.
I rather look forward to seeing this sign as we approach a lock, we don’t find locks hard work and its quite a bit faster doing it ourselves, especially down hill.
On our way down stream we passed two families of geese with 14 goslings between them. I wonder if they still know who’s are who’s?
We passed another sad sight, you can still see the Internet aerial standing on the bank so was being used and not abandoned when it sank.
We carried on down to the ruins of Godstow Abbey, just between Godstow skew bridge and the lock. After we had moored up I thought maybe I should take a photograph of the skew bridge from the back of the boat, the timing just happened to coincide with 4 lads going for a swim and the first one jumped just as I pressed the shutter. He looks like he is walking on the water.
Today’s Journey
17 miles with 4 locks in 5¼ hours
Here is all our journeys this year
2 comments:
Hi both. As is usual, enjoying immensely reading your blog. [Tried it once. Not so easy for such an inadequate as I!] Can I ask if you're spotting anywhere to buy fuel above Oxford? We didn't see a single riverside diesel fuel seller there and back. We were seriously grateful to see the fuel boat on the Lower Oxford! Geoff & Beryl. 'Minimo'.
We only saw one place with a diesel pump, was Oxford Cruisers but it doesn't look to be in use at the moment as the land was dug up around it.
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