But, before that, a picture from yesterday that I forgot to include. We popped into Midland Chandlers for a length of stern gland packing material - it's sort of rope that you pack into the stern gland to stop water coming into the boat along the propeller shaft - and this beautifully painted boat was moored outside.
Now, isn't that a picture.
Anyway, here we are, breezing past Braunston Marina. Not many people sitting out for coffee this morning, too breezy.
And here's the approach to Braunston bottom lock. All very busy with the hire boats in for their turn around.
Chilly enough for the multicoloured headgear. Even I had my beenie hat on today, far too much wind for normal boaters hats.
We teamed up with Adventus II through the locks and managed the whole lot in just over 1 hour. Not bad at all.
Not that you can see them too well but 2 army helicopters buzzed past when we were half way through.
We managed the tunnel without incident and have now stopped just short of Buckby locks, in the hope that we can polish the other side of the boat if and when the wind dies down.
Well, we finished the polishing, lit the fire, had a cup of tea, read for a while, then, at 7:10pm., we actually saw a kingfisher. No did we, didn't we, there it was sitting on a branch right opposite the boat. At one point it darted off to another branch, dived into the canal, caught a fish and came back to where we first saw it. Brigid even had time to get the binoculars for a closer look, but, unfortunately, it was too dark to get a photo. Magic!
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