Friday 7 December 2018

Halesowen, Hawne Basin


Here I am Rune
Distance  7 miles
Total 3530 Locks  203 Tunnels
Running total mileage 5079.1 miles

The decision was made that we’d stay at Merry Hill over Thursday and travel on to Hawne Basin today since the weather forecast was very favourable (sunny with wind, but a bit chilly). It was a pleasant day to be out on the canal and even had a kingfisher following us for a short while. For once the trip through Gosty Tunnel was without event although, as usual, quite slow. On this occasion I timed the passage and for a 509 metre tunnel it took 15 minutes to get through, compare that to Netherton tunnel which is about 2,700 metres and takes about 35 - 40 minutes to get through. To go through Netherton at the Gosty pace, it would take about an hour and twenty minutes.

The current plan is to stay here until Sunday and then head into Birmingham City Centre until about next Friday.

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