Here I am Rune
Distance 9.6 miles
Total 4308 Locks 274 Tunnels
Running total mileage 6,549.7 miles
After setting off quite late (about 12.10pm) we managed to fulfil our intended course, down the old main line, up and back the Wednesbury Oak Loop to Bradley workshops and then onward to the Black Country Museum moorings.
The Oak Loop was a bit challenging, partly because of lack of depth (I understood it had been dredged in recent years) and partly due to thick weed growth. On two sections we hit weed that was so thick it brought the boat to a halt but then, once we were past the halfway winding hole (also choked with weed) the weed seemed to reduce but then so did the depth so it eventually took us an hour and a half to travel 1.8 miles, so 1.2 mph average! Curiously it only took us an hour to get back from the workshops to the Old Main Line, so I suppose we’d ploughed a furrow through the weed and followed it back.
The Black Country Museum moorings were full when we got here but the occupants of a boat called ‘Reckless’ invited us to breast up alongside them, it seemed a reasonable thing to do,so we have.
Tomorrow we’ll set off for the centre of Birmingham, the guy off ‘Reckless’ assures me that there were plenty of moorings when he left there today, hope the situation will be the same tomorrow.
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