Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Devizes Wharf



Map reference  SU 00448  61832
           
Distance 6.5 miles

Total 173 Locks 7 Tunnels

Running total mileage 179.2

Have now reached Devizes for a couple of days stopover to enable us to visit Avebury stone rings and Silbury Hill with perhaps a trip around the Wadworths Brewery thrown in! We are saving the joy (and effort) of the Caen Hill flight until Friday hoping that a couple of days rest will put us in fine fettle for it.

Today was a gentle trip through  a fairly overgrown stretch of canal with reed beds reducing the canal width to a single boat in places. Despite the reeds we still didn’t seem to get any problems with weed getting caught around the propeller. Final success of the day was to have located 3 geo-caches on the Devizes Canal.

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