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| Thirsty cows After a very peaceful night we set off in broken sunshine for the staircase of locks at Watford- this would be a new experience. En route we came accross a heard of cows drinking from the river. They took absolutely no notice of our boat. |
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| Not so cute - more ugly really We had to que at the bottom of the lock staircase for quite a while and as I walked for miles to find the lock keeper to book Banjo in Graham was communing with this fabulous Muscovy duck. There were four boats ahead of us and two behind. The two directly in front of us were lovely exhibition boats heading for the show at Crick. |
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| The queue for the Watford flight |
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| Angela in mid flight! It took over an hour to start up the staircase but was not too difficult and the lock keeper was very helpful |
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Its high up here! The locks were single and very deep. We went up 46 feet very quickly. |
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| Almost at the top |
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| Passing another boat in Crick tunnel The Crick Tunnel appeared very shortly. We followed one boat through and were followed by a boat.There were interesting stalagtite formations on the walls and it was, as usual, very wet. As we neared the end of the 1.500 mtrs we passed another boat. |
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| A boat following us in Crick tunnel. After the tunnel we journeyed through Crick and looked at the mooring spaces for the show. Although a lot of boats had already moored we decided to carry on and travelled a further 11 miles along the Grand Union and then the Welford Arm. It was after 7pm when we arrived but we found a lovely spot to moor, managed to get a paper and a TV signal for the Apprentice- brill, but no internet access and therefore not able to publish the blog |
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