Tuesday 29th September, 2015 at Streethay.
A very foggy morning. As we went through Rugeley, the power station cooling towers vanished into the fog and low cloud, giving them a vaguely unreal quality.
Twenty-five minutes later, on the far side, the fog had lifted to reveal their true "glory"!
This narrow cutting was once a tunnel but the roof became unstable, and so was removed. It is still only just wide enough for one boat, so it's advisable to make sure that there is no one coming the other way before you start through it!
The Armitage works takes its name from the town (or is it the other way round?). Armitage is famous for toilets (among other things). It is not a very prepossessing building!
At lunchtime, we arrived at Fradley Junction, where the Coventry Canal branches off south from the Trent & Mersey Canal. It is one of the most photographed junctions on the canal system; yet its peace and tranquillity is sadly threatened by the planned route of HS2.
We moored up and walked down to the former BW workshops. These had been closed when we last visited, but have now been nicely renovated and re-opened as a café and information centre, so we had a very good lunch.
M has to go home tomorrow for a choir meeting, so we had booked MM a two night mooring at the relatively new King's Orchard Marina. When we passed two years ago, it was only just completed and had very few boats moored up. Now it is very attractive - amd almost full!
After filling with diesel and water, and emptying the poo tank, we moored up and then walked along the towpath, across the fields and across the railway line...
... to get to Lichfield Trent Valley railway station to collect M's tickets for tomorrow.
The sun was just setting as we walked back to the marina.
And we photographed MM in her berth in the evening light.
Today: 11 miles, 3 locks and 6.0 hours.
Trip: 388 miles, 3030 locks and 295.1 hours.
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