Off up the hill again......

Bristol was brilliant, we took a final picture of our mooring and set off which to be fair was easier than I thought it would be-once we had reversed out of the little harbour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The very first lock back....

For a day that started so well it soon went down hill...It started with the small day hire boat who pulled out in front of us and then chugged at tick over speed all the way to Bradford -On -Avon, who then pulled into a café near the lock and all went to get burgers. I walked up to the lock keeper to tell him we were waiting at the bottom only to find that as the lock opened they jumped back on their boat and shot off up to the lock gates. They obviously thought they were going in the lock by themselves (forget about the other 3 boats behind) and stopped in the middle. Their faces were a picture as they realised we were coming in as well and it then took them 15 minutes to manouver  the boat so we could get in ...needless to say the lock keeper wasn't impressed.

Tithe Barn at Bradford on Avon.

 

 

We carried on meeting several daft hire boaters, some who thought it a good idea to moor in the lock operating areas, another who came in the lock with us...and when they went out tried to pick up his crew in the reeds....he was still trying to get them on 20 minutes later.

Today we started early because we wanted to be at the bottom of the locks at 8. We were met by another hire boat-who were fantastic. There were four of them on board so we soon got to the top. They were all from Macclesfield and had hired the boat from the bottom of the locks...they were a bit upset that we weren't going to be going down with them again on Thursday- Greg said not a chance. We said our goodbyes and promised to look out for them when we head up to Macclesfield in a few weeks time.

The kingfishers nest inside the pipe.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy days.