We
left Keynsham feeling sad as we were leaving Dot and Gordon behind but I’m sure
we will meet up with them somewhere else this summer. Dot is going to make me a piece of stained
glass so we WILL have to find them somewhere!
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| Reflections at Keysham |
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| Leaving Keynsham |
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| Swineford Lock |
It
was a lovely trip up to Bath through Swineford, Saltford and Kelston
Locks. The locks themselves are in
lovely locations and the weirs make them so interesting. At Saltford Lock we came across a group of
people from Lloyds Bank who were on a sort of team building exercise and were
giving the lock a good spruce up. I had
read about groups from M & S doing this – a great team building exercise as
well as helping the canals. It was funny
though because as we arrived there were people everywhere in fluorescent jackets
but as soon as they saw us they all disappeared! I had high hopes of not having much to do but
it wasn’t to be! They had in fact gone
for a coffee break so maybe it was just bad timing for us.
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| Flower Sculpture opposite Saltford Lock |
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| Kelston Weir |
As
we approached Bath we could see a very dark cloud ahead and we both had visions
of having to do the Deep Lock in the pouring rain. In fact the rain never came so we were very
lucky. The river into Bath isn’t really
very interesting or at least I don’t think it is. There was really only one building that I
felt was worthy of a photo. We decided
not to moor along the river but to go up beyond Lock 10 on the canal. We had wanted to moor at Pulteney Bridge but
according to C&RT they are working on the mooring and it is closed however
I have since discovered from a boating taxi driver that the moorings are closed
as last summer a crowd of liveaboards moved in and there were real problems in
getting them to move on. Sad as it’s a
lovely place to moor.
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| Rain clouds over Bath |
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| Interesting building coming in to Bath |
We
went through Bath Bottom Lock and then into Bath Deep Lock. It’s pretty scary at the bottom and Muffin
wasn’t too sure either. I’m not going to
go into details here as to what happened in the lock as I have done a separate
post here which will tell you all about it.
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| Leaving the world behind at the Deep Lock |
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| Eeek Mum it's a long way up! |
Needless
to say that after my scare I was pretty shaken up and after we had moored up
above Lock 10 I couldn’t stop my hands from shaking. I then got a rotten headache and slept for
about an hour. I felt a bit better later
but still very upset.
Keynsham
to Bath
9.06
miles
7
locks
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