A hang-glider commanded the sky, and birds watched cautiously from a distance.
NB Naiad by name
Northchurch Lock
Have you ever seen a Boat Boot Sale?
Or, probably more properly, a Boat Locker Sale?
We moored soon after that, tying up at a spot with several other
boats, alongside a public park adjacent to the huge Tring Reservoir.
The White Lion, recommended in our Nicholson Guide, stood derelict.
At around sunset, we took our cameras out to capture
the extreme beauty of the reservoir.
It was a dull day, and the countryside through which we passed
just didn't have the zing that a late April ought to give it
...two Jules Fuels boats came down Grove Lock and moored outside the pub
.
...the Jules boats arrived
It was raining, windy and chilly, the sky a fabulous storm-blue...
We pressed on to Stoke Hammond Lock
We started the following day's trip behind a couple of Wyvern hire boats.
I like Milton Keynes. The canal passes almost entirely
through attractive parkland and woods.
Cosgrove. Here we stopped, just a few hundred yards from the lock.
Up the shallow Cosgrove Lock
...the sun was out, the sky was blue, and all was well in our world
...we climbed the five locks into Stoke Bruerne
...we moored below the second lock down, a favoured spot of ours now
We were only a short walk from The Navigation Inn
...we set off straight away up the two remaining Stoke Bruerne Locks
There's an ancient church in Weedon, right next to the canal.
...moored finally not far below Top Lock
...the Leicester Line
Watford Locks
As we approached the marina...
Yelvertoft Marina, viewed from the service platform!
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