Sunday 30th May 2021 near Flecknoe
Inca (Mel and Peter's dog) on full squirrel alert (the triumph of hope over experience)!
There are three "double" locks at Hillmorton and there are usually volunteers at the bottom locks. One obligingly posed with Mel for a photograph. Our two boats are side by side in the parallel loocks.
The hawthorn has been amazing this year with cascades of white blossom like a bridal veil.
Always lovely to see Braunston Church spire in the distance. This time we will not stop in Braunston but continue down the Oxford where it also becomes part of the Grand Union.
The approaches to Braunston were heaving with hire boats on "staycations" (it was half term week and the sun was shining) so we continued on down towards "Wigrams Turn".
We moored up about halfway to the junction next to a disused railway line. M & R went to explore it but couldn't go more than a few hundred yards before they were met with a fence preventing further exploration.
The embankment is obviously not much visited and was a mass of at least twenty varieties of beautiful wild flowers.
We were rewarded with a magnificent sunset with a view right down to the horizon.
Today: 11 miles, 3 locks and 4.6 hours.
Trip: 76 miles, 24 locks and 31.0 hours.
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