Elton

We set off from Oundle at 9:00 and cruised fairly slowly in wonderful boating weather: blue skies, minimal breeze, comfortably warm but not too hot and the scenery is lovely with trees along one side of the river and pasture on the other.

Buzzard on hay bale.

We had good sightings of both red kite and buzzards.  I have been trying to get a decent photo of the former for some time but still no luck, they tend to move too quickly for one to be able to find them with the highest camera magnification and the automatic focus does not have chance to work well.  However there was more luck with a buzzard, one was stood on a hay bale and did not move as we passed by.

We are now moored at the delightful village of Elton at the unofficial moorings just above the lock along with 5 other boats.  After mooring we walked into the village to see whether we should eat out this evening at the pub, but they were fully booked so another another meal onbard.

Statistics: 6.61 m 3 locks 3 hours 35 mins cruising