Friday 27 March 09. Tardebigge Top Lock to Tardebigge Bottom Lock. 29 locks 6 hours.

Bit of light rain this morning as we politely let a hire boat go past before we set off.

This turned out to be a big mistake as a few locks into the flight a boat came the other way.

The hire boat then had all the locks set for them whilst we had to refill each one before we could empty it and move on. Such is life.

This is a really nice piece of the countryside to be sliding down hill through, this house was just there, in the middle of nowhere, no roads just a towpath.

A windswept D in another great view.

This is a rare bridge across the bottom of a lock, they help you get across easily without risking life and limb doing the balance beam "dance". Maybe if D had seen it wasnt actually fixed to anything she might not have been so keen.

A really sad sight this, the boat didnt seem to have been sunk very long and I just hope they didnt get back from work to this. There was a BW man at the scene as we approached



This last gate of the day had so many things growing on it, if I was a Botanist I could tell you what they all were, but Im not so you will just have to guess.

Today was another day all about locks, 29 to be precise, after mooring at a convenient Pub located at the bottom lock we dragged our weary bodies inside. I didnt want to go and had to be dragged. (Honest).

Till tomorrow..............