Tuesday 12 May 2015

The beauty goes on Kinver to Wolverley


Lunchtime start for us today after having two trips to the chemist to collect the monthly meds!!!


Mr Heron accompanies us along the way.



Whittington Horse Bridge



Whittington Lock....


and legs are bared to the world for the first time this cruise!!!


Watching me... watching you!!!


It is difficult to think of another canal bounded by so many trees, only broken by the occasional outcrop of Triassic Rock.

At Caunsall the Bunter pebble beds of Austcliffe Rock loom over us.



Love this boat name from Bedrock Austcliff!!!

I think it's a long time since a train went this way.






Cookley Tunnel is 65 yards long burrows beneath the old iron-making village of Cookley.


Wasn't expecting to see these odd canoes around the bend!


Debdale Lock - what a fantastic setting!!!



Looking back.


Approaching what can only be described as a hairpin bend and taking this line leads to grounding!!

After a lot of rock,rolling and reversing this is definitely the better line.



Rock on both sides now. The navvies who dug out this canal certainly had their work cut out!!!


Moored a Wolverley and time for a stroll around the village.






4 1/2 miles, 2 locks and 1 tunnel.

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