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| End of navigation - Redwith Bridge |
In the morning we went out for a 2 mile walk down the towpath. A quarter of a mile from our mooring there was a lift bridge and a couple of hundred yards beyond that the winding hole that provides the final opportunity to turn before the end of the canal. The formal end of navigation is at Redwith Bridge a quarter mile or so further on but boats dont normally come this far as they cant turn round here.
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| Rebuilding the canal |
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| One day we will be cruising here |
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| mmm- bit of work to do |
Beyond Redwith Bridge there is active restoration. One section is in water but the level is low - I believe leaks are preventing it being opened. Beyond here work has started on rebuilding the canal. However a short distance further on one can see how much how much work still needs to be done with canal which seems to have been cleared in the past now largely hidden by a thick mass of reeds and scrub. By the end of our walk the canal has almost completely disappeared being little more than a depression at the edge of a field.
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| Orchid - species unknown |
We returned to the boat for lunch and then set off, first going down to the winding hole beyond the lift bridge to turn around and then back up the Aston Locks where I noticed a lovely purple orchid, the only one we have seen on our journey. We have moored for the night a Queens head just above the top lock and will be having a meal at the pub this evening.
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