Littleport

Here I am Rune

Distance 17.7 miles

Total 4088 Locks  264 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,060.5 miles

Another quite long day’s run (for us) takes us to Littleport, mainly because that is the nearest waterpoint that I could find and we were getting short of water. We’ll need to stop off in Ely tomorrow for other domestic chores to get done and then we either carry on towards Bedford, or come back up the Great Ouse and go down the River Lark.

After yesterday’s rain, the weather held up OK for us today, although a bit windy in places, but since the landscape is so flat, that is to be expected.

I quite like this sign on the Great Ouse, it's actually for the A10 main road behind that embankment.

Brandon

Here I am Rune

Distance 13.8 miles

Total 4088 Locks  264 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,042.8 miles

A 4 hour run today brings us to the most Easterly point on the connected navigations, Brandon Lock in Suffolk. It is a landscape that is flat in industrial quantities, and coming across the Fens it is also very remote, not somewhere you’d want to break down. Not sure just how long we’ll stay here for, we have shopping to get but the forecast for Saturday isn’t too good at the moment. A decision for another day.

Brandon Lock

RUNE at Brandon Lock

Brandon Creek

Here I am Rune

Distance 7.6 miles

Total 4088 Locks  264 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,029.0 miles

Back down the River Wissey and onto the main Great Ouse we had another pleasant day’s cruise to the Environment Agency moorings at The Ship public house. Before settign off from Hilgay it was necessary to restock with milk, and I have to say that the butcher/grocer in Hilgay sells the most expensive milk I’ve ever bought, £2.60 for 2 litres, sadly when desperate and with no alternatives, that is what you have to pay.

Dependent upon the weather tomorrow may be another longish sort of day to get down to Brandon Lock since there seems to be an absence of any other moorings on the Little Ouse we have to go the full 13 miles before stopping for lunch. We will probably stay there until at least Saturday, although rain is forecast for Saturday, so might possibly stay slightly longer.