Day 5 Sunday grey and wet which is not a bad thing as far as the canal is concerned but it probably did not make any diffrence at all-it needs to rain for weeks- hopefully not before we are home in October.
We have moved from Bugbrooke through Gayton Junction and Blisworth tunnel. Total so far its 31 miles and 20 locks but no cappuccinos- its a wilderness out their. Once we are through Milton Keynes the locks start to come thick and fast.
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| Blisworth Mill once used by the GUCCC-Grand Union Canal Carrying Co now nice flats |
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| I do like junctions this is Gayton- the left is the River Nene,straight on is the south |
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| A very different aluminium boat-its not a Sea Otter -the owners are from SA with safari colours on the sides. |
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| Inside the 3000yard Blisworth Tunnel opened in 1805. It was closed in the early 1980's for 3 years during which time they relined the centre section with concrete segmenst which you can just see in the boats light behind us. It takes 40 minutes to go through. |
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| Amusing sign at Yardley Gobion Wharf |
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| Another sign at the Wharf |
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| Cosgrove moorings we are just on the bend |
