Sunday being hot,hot,hot and Arkholme needing to stay down between locks 5 and 6 to go and collect the 'travel pack' from Cox's on Monday it was all hands on deck to get Sokai to the top of the locks.
With plenty of boats coming down it was dusted and done in an hour.
Bright and early Monday the 'travel pack' was collected and with Trev in recovery from the mega bucks bill the A team had Arkholme up the locks in 45 minutes and that's even with all the locks set against us!!!!
No Trev don't hit the bottle - its only money!!! Think it might be wise to save the anniversary celebrations to another day.
Scores on the doors!!!
The kind volunteers even have dogie treats as well as water.
Book swapping was done.
What a picturesque basin at the top with the former hat factory in the back ground.
None of the black plastic bales here!!!
What balmy summer days are made for.
Is it a train? Is it a plane?.....yep it's a boat!!!
Even boats get thirsty in hot weather.
Hartshill waterways maintenance yard with its elegant clock tower.
At this point the heat got us and we moored for the night beyond the bridge and boy was it hot!
This morning it was cooler but the cows had decided to sit it out.
A pyramid of the Coventry Canal. Apparently come sunset, it looks almost as romantic!!!
It is made from the spoils of quarrymen extracting rich red rock through the years.
We skirt around the edge of Nuneaton.
No sight of Dr Who
Lots....
and lots of allotments...
and crazy moored boats...
and canal and river trust work boats!!!
Well we would have had some fuel from you Mr Starline Boats....just a tad none user friendly!!!
Goodbye then Nuneaton.
Junction with the Ashby Canal.
Stig????
All good fun!!!
Our resting place for tonight....
and its plank time......
and off to The Greyhound for a belated anniversary celebration.
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