We left Abingdon on Tuesday morning in bright warm sunshine and had one of our best boating days of the last 11 years. The Thames meanders along through Clifton Hampden, Little Wittenham, Shillingford and Benson. You feel as if you are in the middle of nowhere with just the river and wildlife for company. The icing on the cake being that there were moorings at Wallingford Bridge and at only £5 per night.
Compared to yesterday - today has been the pits-it started raining at 10.30 and has only just started to ease up-fire has been alight all day. Tomorrow looks better and hopefully the rain will not impact on the river flows- we are going to head for Beale Park near Pangbourne.
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| Our mooring at Wallingford Bridge- note the blue sky |
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| The Town Hall in Wallingford built in 1670 |
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| One man and an inflatable canoe enjoying the evening sunshine |
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| The barges come large |
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| A boat trying to enter the lock sideways- and it wasn't windy at all |
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| A lovely little river run around |
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| A Heron on guard on the roof of a boat-it blended well with the scaffold pipe |
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| The lovely brick built bridge at Clifton Hampden |
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| The much photographed Shillingford Court- fabulous house- its just as you go round a 90 degree starboard (right) bend |
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| This is the modern neighbour |
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| Boat shed-or is it a small flat! |
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| There was plenty of bird life around and I only managed a couple of not very good pics-buzzard |
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| Red kite |
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| Only 3 Didcot Power Station towers in the distance now |
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| Just miles of this lovely open countryside in glorious warm sunshine- Wittenham Clumps in the far centre |
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| A family of geese go parading past |
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| The Hotel barge African Queen called briefly at Wallingford today |
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| The boat that says it all |
