As we didn’t plan to go far today it was a late start so that the engine was running while the bread was baking. We have an electric bread make and it draws about 20 amps at 24 volts while in the baking stage. This fisherman gave a lovely silhouette photo fishing in the bridge hole.
It was a lovely sunny morning but along this stretch of canal we didn’t get to see much of it.
I don’t remember this old warehouse looking so smart when we have passed this way before , set at the back of the winding hole at High Onn Wharf.
We met several day boat out and all behaving in a very respectable way. It wasn’t long before we were approaching Cowley Tunnel, I am not sure if I have ever photo'd the approach from this direction, as you can see its a solid piece of rock. The rock is not very thick and the tunnel only 80 yards long, but it was obviously easier to bore a tunnel than blast out a cutting. The rock is so stable that the tunnel is completely unlined.
Back in the daylight and we were coming into Gnosall, please don’t ask me to pronounce it. This is a town that is proud of its canal and spends a lot of time keeping the area nice.
Moored in town was a fellow Cutweb Internet Boat Club member, we had never met before but she know we were coming and flagged us down, the result half an hour or more chatting on the towing path. Eventually we parted company and continued toward Norbury Junction, I always think of Wallace and Gromet with the smart gnome when I write that name.
We passed something you don’t see every day on the canals, this canal might be quite wide and straight but I wouldn’t fancy tacking this into the wind or shooting the bridges.
At Norbury Junction the first visitor mooring we came to was free so we slipped in there, it was then solid up through the bridge and to the long term moorings the far side. There are a few spaces now as some people have moved on, I expect they were having lunch at the pub.
Today’s Journey
6¼ miles with no locks in3 hours
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