St Martins To .......Around The Bend.

Water water everywhere, well....enough to float on at least.

After yesterdays fiasco with the water levels around here, there we are all nice and afloat on a full canal.

It turned out that the pumping station at Froncysyllte had tripped out, that, combined with no water coming down from Llangollen due to the winter works the canal practically drained itself.

A point to think about here is just how quickly that happened, it does make me wonder if it will happen again as that pumping station is going to be overworked until the repairs further up the line are completed.

It's a case of watch this space I suppose. 

We wandered off in the morning to a shop named  "Stans Superstore" it was located within a mile walk of our night mooring and if OK could prove useful in our stay up here..

I'm not too sure what to say about that, but Stans "Not So" Superstore will not be benefitting from our hard earned English pounds in the future.

A trip to the water point was required.

This is the water point and here's a little story that will get a few heads nodding.

After our little shopping trip we decided to move the half a mile along the canal to the water point.

Now, bearing in mind we have not seen another boat on the move for over twenty four hours, just as we slipped the ropes....... along came a boat!

You just know instinctively that they are going to the water point but the saving grace is that there are two of them so we should be OK.

As he pulled onto the point another boat came from the opposite direction and took the remaining tap. We pulled in to wait our turn as yet another boat came up the lock  wanting to take on water.

He had to breast up (Pull alongside another boat) whilst he waited.

There have been no more boats through here at all today in either direction.

Sooooo..............Why does this happen?

At the exact same time, four boats arrive in the same place to do the same thing..... then nothing.

I have been banging on here about this Sheep Syndrome thing for a while now and note that another Blogger has got on board with it, that is mainly about boats flocking together for no reason, but this type of thing is just plain strange, yet it happens over and over again!

Right, that's me around the bend so.....

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

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