Brownsover

We set off from home about 10 am in bright sun shine that continued all the way to the mooring with the temperature hitting 22°C.

 

We stopped for lunch in Crick at the Wheatsheaf, we decide to have the oldies lunch, but what a lunch it was, I can only imagine whet the evening meals must be like.

 

Once at the boat it was good to see loads of parking spots near the access to our pontoon to unload the car. By the time we were ready to leave the the sky was full of black clouds and the breeze picked up a bit.
For several months an abandon boat was moored offside under bridge 77A the M45 motorway bridge, last time we were out it was moored outside Barby Marina, today we met it about  half a mile north of the marina being attempted to tow it backwards with a smaller narrowboat with no windows.
Just passed the Waterside Pub we saw the first of two clutches of ducklings.

No one around at Hillmorton top lock but the nearside was almost full and we spotted an ex-working boat coming up in the middle lock so the bottom locks should have been full, but one was half empty and the other fully empty. It made me smile that the CRT had to get a map of their system from IWA.

We planned to moor a short way passed Kent Road Bridge but all the spots we had on mind on were taken and I didn’t want tree sap dripping on us. By now the weather had cleared nicely so we carried on past Clifton Cruisers and the aqueduct before mooring for the night. Half an hour latter there were spots of rain. this was followed by thunder and lightning, as I post this its still raining.

Today’s Journey

5 miles with 3 locks in 2¼ hours