Coventry Canal is a contour canal with no locks for long stretches and is, consequently, very sinuous and winding. It's also beautiful, peaceful (mostly) and very rural.
We're seen several empty rabbit hutches in gardens - is this a sign of rabbit upsizing? Brings to mind a friend who was a vicar's wife whose house rabbit ate the vicar's cassock. The insurance company queried the claim in some depth.
nb Blue Adeline test-boated today, carefully mapping the shallows where she promptly ran aground twice and nobly prevented nb Romajech doing the same.
A few ghastly narrowboat helmsmen, mostly very gung-ho, not in control and going too fast. Several very near misses, but none of them seemed to notice!
To compensate, there were considerate boaters who waited for our two boats to get through bridges or narrow spaces beside moored boats.
Mid morning break saw our guerrilla tea partying enter a new phase, surrounded by fun runners. Several asked for a lift. The most noticeable was a superhero in a morph suit, who announced that he had come to rescue us. There was also a disconsolate youth dressed in a short red tutu and purple wings, who looked as if he wanted to be somewhere else.
We moored just past Fazeley Junction, hoping our choice of spot would be calm and peaceful.
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