We
left Semington with the boat behind us who had got some good beefy crew on
board though we only did two locks with them in the end as we seemed to lose
them – a bit remiss of us! At the third
of Seend Locks two boats managed to get themselves stuck together coming out –
a hire boat had a fender down and they were well jammed! I’m not sure how they got out but they
managed it somehow. We had planned to get water there but there was quite a
queue so we left it. Even with all the
boat movements today we did the Seend Locks on our own and Victoria and I
somehow managed to do all four locks about twice each as the boats coming down
were quite happy to stand back and let us!
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| Interesting bird houses |
Last
time we had done the Caen Hill flight we had stopped just round the bend from
Foxhangers and we were aiming to get there again but that was before Caen Hill
Marina was built and now all that mooring is “no mooring”. Fortunately we were able to get in just
before the sign though Richard did have to do some gardening so we could get
ashore.
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| The Caen Hill motley crew |
We
had a lovely, afternoon reading and playing computer games before our big day
tomorrow.
Semington
Bottom Lock to bottom of Caen Hill Locks
4.23
miles
7
lock
5
swing bridge
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