It's Sunday and I'm home. It's been a blur of a day, we both have some sort of cold/virus so it's been a struggle today. We left our mooring along from Willington in need of water. We don't have our own hose so we can only use the BW taps along the canal to fill up our water carriers which will only last a few days. We are already looking into when we will need to fill up again soon and where the next water point is.
We passed under the first brick built bridge of the day, bridge 26, High Bridge.
We saw some lovely boats with colour schemes that we both admired on the trip today and both agree that our boat sure does need a good paint job but it will have to wait until we've raised some funds!
We approached our first Aqueduct, which wasn't as impressive as it could've been. There is an amazing one in Wales which looks as frightening as a high-rise fair ride! We continued along the canal following the route by map over to page 165 of the Colins waterways guide 3 (Birmingham and the heart of England).
We were heading towards Burton-upon-Trent and passed under bridge 28...
As we continued along we passed a pub offering two meals for a tenner just after bridge 29a we heard our bellies rumble and jumped at the chance of hot food. Leigh guided the boat towards the towpath and I lept off the boat with the centre rope and pulled her in. We hammered in the mooring pins and ran the ropes through and tied off on the boat. Delia had escaped through the bow doors and under the cratch cover much to our dismay and was too cheeky to come back toward the boat even through we rattled her crunchies. So we left her to it and went for lunch.
When we came back to the boat, Delia was in the bushes and soon enough in Leigh's arms. She went inside and we set off again. We had just over a mile until the water point. We were looking out for bridge 32 as we knew it was just after. When we were on the approach, Leigh dropped the revs and we slowly passed through the bridge. We spotted the water point, in use and moored up on the towpath side.
The couple using the water point were errecting a temporary cratch cover as the clouds were grey and there was a gradual pitter-patter of rain on the surface of the canal water. They soon left and we were preparing for reversing (without steering) and turning the boat (against the wind) using the barge pole. It wasn't an easy job but we did it! And filled our bottles with water.
We set off continuing along the canal and I was feeling worse than ever so we decided to pull up and call it a day. I went to bed and so our journey waits until tomorrow...
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