Through Braunston to Hillmorton

Wednesday 14th July 2021

Today has been an unusual boating day. The weather has been sunny, not too hot, the breeze has not inconvenienced us. There is little to report.

 

We started off and immediately passed through Braunston tunnel which was smoke free so you could see the other end as you entered. We met no-one coming the other way so even the tunnel passage was un-eventful.

 

Down through Braunston locks solo as no body was waiting on the moorings to go down and no-one was following us through the tunnel. Out the bottom lock we pulled over at UCC so that the Cap’n could discuss engineeringy things before our dry dock visit in October. The dry dock is alongside the bottom lock here.

 

We passed the ‘turn’ with difficulty because a long trad style boat was tied up on the rubbish skip mooring leaving little space between it’s bows and the boat moored on the 14 day moorings opposite.

 

Onto the North Oxford canal and we found ourselves following nb Abraxus again until they moored up just past Hillmorton Wharf – we suspected that the Waterside was the desired destination.

 

We continued on and moored before the road bridge above Hillmorton top lock. One of our favourite moorings due to the proximity of the Exotica Bengal Quisine restaurant – although it was to be a take-away tonight, taken on the foredeck, as Graham is doing blood bike controlling from 7pm.

A timelapse video of today's trip is at https://youtu.be/HcEPLJ3A3vE

G&B