Today it rained.
And rained.
And rained.
Consequently there are few photographs.
We set off around 10AM. The nicest part of the morning was sailing through the Wast Hills tunnel. That was 2726 yards and about 40 minutes of not being rained on. Also all traffic was moving in the same direction as us, so no awkward in tunnel passing required.
We finally stopped at the Drawbridge pub in Shirley once we were on to the Stratford Canal for a large Sunday afternoon meal.
Two and a half hours later, and a lot fuller, we left, together with a pink pig and a pink fish that had proved irresistible to the children and cost them 20 locks worth of money each. A lack of canal side shops has proved very frustrating for them.
We had a brief bit of fine weather and I got these pictures of the lift bridges.
This is bridge 26.
And this is bridge 26 about five minutes later.
Eventually we got through and made it to the start of the next flight of locks.
Then it started to rain again so we moored straight after lock 3. Hopefully we will progress further and on to the Grand Union tomorrow.
Not that we are worried about our leak, but the measuring jug used for catching the ingress was up to 300 ml today in just 8 hours.
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