Anchor bridge

Well after the cold miserable morning yesterday, this morning it was well into double figures before we set off and hit a high of 21° this afternoon. 
We hadn’t gone a ¼ of a mile before I was in the mud. we met another boat by the long term moorings so I pulled over towards the row of moored boats and was about 8’ from them when we started to lean. I guess the ones along there never leave their mooring.
At bridge 24 a CRT chappie was hard at work covering the graffiti with what looked like black bitumastic paint.

A little further on some months back there was a minor landslide and CRT attempted to close the towing path but some people had other ideas.

The slip is actually very old and a few years back the towing path was raised with cement bags, but that has now succumbed to the water, but it suits the Heron as a fishing platform. You can see where people have walked around it. 
We met a couple of boat just before Suttons Stop so the lock was just about in our favour and with no one coming the other way it was out, round and up the Coventry canal in one. The sunk boat that was just beyond the narrows has now been removed.
There was a lot less traffic on the Coventry and a chap painting his boat warned us of a floating tree trunk opposite Boot Wharf which was useful. The Electric charity trip boat, Hargraves was out, so that was something else to watch for. We met them just before Springwood Haven.
CRT have now closed the offside long term moorings at Tuttle Hill and removed the signs.

Of course you cant come this way without a photo of the Telegraph Pole.

It looks as if someone has recently attached a surveying reflector to it, not sure if that is a good or bad sign.

We carried on and moored for the night at Anchor Bridge with a view to eating in the Anchor Pub tonight.

Today’s Journey

 

14 miles with 1 lock in 5 hours.