After we moored up yesterday we cleared up 3 heaps of dog poo by the boat, went to set off this morning and there was a fresh pile right by the stern mooring line.
Today was not as bright as yesterday but light winds and no rain, thankfully, A bit late setting off as the Christmas Lights had to go up first.
Once away it was the land slide at Easenhall Cutting, at the south end before the land slide the embankment is riddled with rabbit burrows, this can’t help stability. The site of the first land slide
looked quite dry today, unlike yesterday when the water was gushing down into the canal washing right across the towpath. The photo was taken from under the bridge as the towpath is still closed.
The northern landslide now looks quite well established with the grass growing over the works.
As we approached the swing bridge at Rose Narrowboats a dog walker kindly turned back from his walk and swung the bridge for us, his Spaniel didn’t look at all impressed having his morning walk disrupted.
CRT have issued an alert for another landslide between bridges Nettlehill bridge, but this is an old slide, only now the water level is up about 3” the towpath round the front of the slip is underwater, last trip it was just covered in puddles.
We stopped in Ansty to fill with water, with the extra water in the canal its a little wider than normal here, there is normally a bit of flooding to the offside.
Once the tank was full we continuing on through Sutton Stop to the Coventry Canal. Passing the electricity Substation I spotted a deer in the brush, can you see it?
One of the long term moored boats has an interesting chimney cover, or rain hat.
Once on the Coventry canal we headed towards Atherstone, again both here and on the Oxford there were very few boats moored up. we carried on stopping a short way before Charity Dock.
Today’s Journey
10 miles with 1 lock in 4 hours
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