Woke to a sunny morning and set off at 9:30 intending to travel for several hours. It was certainly a very pleasant cruise downstream beyond the edge of Northampton. At our first lock, another heavy manually operated one, we met a narrowboat coming up. They reported that our planned mooring spot at Cogenhoe, pronounced Cookner, was no longer available as a boater had upset the farmer who owned the land.
Unlike on the canals where CRT own the towpath, the river banks are owned by the adjacent landowner and good moorings are difficult to find, particularly at this end of the river. So we had the choice of a very long journey to the subsequent moorings at Earl Barton (possibly) or Wellingborough (definitely) or to cut today's journey short and make for those moorings tomorrow. We decided on the latter to moor at the EA moorings at Weston Flavell after only 2.5 miles and 2 locks in 1.5 hours.
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| Northampton Washlands |
During the afternoon we walked the 3 miles approx around the extensive Northampton Washlands lake which is used to store excess river water during flood conditions. It also serves as a nature reserve and we were pleased to see a little egret, herons, terns, great crested grebe, tufted ducks, pink footed geese (I think) and the inevitable Canada Geese.
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