25th August — And we're off!

 Sunday morning, still a bit breezy, but we're setting off today, come what may. 

Here we go, heading for the marina exit. Even though it was a tad blowy it was one of the best exits to date. It's almost a blind turn on to the canal but the captain was up front and could give me the all clear as we went onto the cut. 

There were quite a few boats on the canal, one boater saying that he'd seen more boats today than in the whole fortnight he'd been out. That didn't bother us too much as we didn't go too far and stopped at our favourite place opposite our favourite tree. 

After lunch we decided to take a walk around a wood that we had spotted on the opposite side of the canal. 

The wood is called Fieldside Covert Wood and is manged by The Woodland Trust. We followed a circular route passing under many enormous oak, ash and sycamore trees. 

You might have noticed that although it's meant to be summer, the captain still needed a woolly hat! The wind was quite cold. 

From a gate at the bottom corner of the wood we had a good view of Polgara moored on the opposite side of the canal. 

She's the boat bang in the middle of the picture. 

We then returned to the boat and set about cooking a late Sunday lunch of roast chicken, boiled potatoes, courgettes, calabrese, cauliflower and cabbage. Of course, accompanied by a glass of wine. I do get looked after on these boating holidays!