Hinkley

Last night we ate at The Greyhound Pub, this is the third meal we have had since it changed ownership and they have all been very good. At half seven the restaurant was just about full on a Tuesday.

We left about eight pm and the temperature was down to 0.5°C as we walked back to the boat, I couldn’t resist a quick shot of the junction and bridge.

This morning we woke to a fine morning, as we needed water we slipped across the cut and filled the tank while we were having breakfast. The forecast had changed from last night, it was now rain at two, not all day as it said yesterday. Tank full and we were away, disturbing the fishermen under the bridge and on to the Coventry canal, picking up Diana in the narrows then passed this sunken cruiser with attached enforcement notice.

Be cruised along the Coventry Canal as far as Marston Junction where we turned  very sharp right down the Ashby canal. The temperature was just below 6°C but it felt a lot colder.
The moorings by the fishing lakes are almost empty

now, only 4 boats there and a CRT van, but there is now a cruiser on the lake, it may have always been there but not visible from the canal when the moorings were full.

The first boat we met all day, well the only one was just before The Lime Kilns, the long term moorings here were half empty as well.
We had planned (note that word again) juts past the Hinkley Boat Club arm but there were full so we pushed on passing CRT cutting offside vegetation. just ahead of them are some quite large fallen tree limbs, I wonder if they can tackle them. The moorings opposite Trinity Marina were also full so we pushed on past the industrial units as we have found them noisy at night, to moor just before bridge 19. It is still dry bet the wind has freshened.

Today’s Journey

 

9½ Miles with 1 lock in 3¼ hours