For some reason we even slept late for us and that takes some doing. The smoke alarm in the bedroom had the decency to wait until half nine to tell me its battery needed changing rather than wake us earlier.
Again it was a glorious day, not quite so hot as yesterday but very pleasant. We still managed to get away a few minutes after ten.
After a short while we met a paddle boarder coming towards us on the mirror like canal.
Much to our surprise there were very few boats moored in Hopwas and none at all outside the two pubs. Despite the comments I have read on line this week all the water levels on the Coventry and T&M to Fradley have been spot on. We did pass a sitting goose who was obviously concerned about flooding when she built her nest.
Coming into Whittington is much better since CRT dredged some of the offside reedbed from the canal.
There were some lovely reflections, this one resulted in me kissing the offside of Whittington Bridge, thankfully its s rectangular concrete one, not a brick arched one.
We passed the first two moored boats on the approach to Fradley junction, one of which was here at New Year and the time before that when we were here (maybe they move the same as we do) before dropping into the first available mooring spot. It turned out to be the only one, with a boat left on one waterpoint and the crew of a Dayboat having lunch on the other
Today’s Journey
10¾ miles with no locks in 4 hours.
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