Cliff Wood To Derwent Mouth Lock.
Derwent Mouth To The Erewash Canal.
Erewash To Swarkstone.
Swarkstone To Burton Upon Trent.

Catching up again as we end our Pennine ring quest.

Lock number one on the Trent and Mersey, that's the whole of that canal cruised then, only a short way down the Trent to Trent lock left now and then the culmination of our Pennine ring adventure.

Here we are!..... success.

Four months later and we are back where we started, pouring with rain and blowing a gale.

What to do now?

Lets nip up the Erewash for a few days as we are here says I.

Ok then says D.

Lets turn around and get as far away from here as possible would have been a better thing to say............ a much better thing as it turned out!

This is the second lock on the canal at Long Eaton, beyond this lock the whole canal is devoid of water. No winding holes (turning places) for miles in front of or behind us.

BW know the situation but are still allowing boats up here, we did catch sight of an employee but he vanished like the morning mist before we could get to him.

Much draining of the upper pounds later we managed to get Ubique through two more locks and winded (turned around), a very bad bottom scraping and propeller crunching experience later and we were back here for the night.

Trying to get off the canal the next day and we had to laugh at this.

It is about the only thing that will float up here properly, maybe it is a new design of BW service craft........ it is nearly the right colour after all.

Onward.

I will fill in the blanks tomorrow or this blog will drag on a bit.

Until next time......................

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