Here I am Rune
Distance 3.6 miles
Total 1908Locks 90 Tunnels
Running total mileage 2698.2 miles
On what has clearly been the hottest day of the year we have
moved from Limehouse Basin to the outskirts of the Olympic Park (if I stand on
the nearby bridge I can see the ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture). I have to say
that I got a similar feeling travelling through the Olympic Park as I got when
I visited the Barcelona Olympic area, it was built for a specific purpose and
that purpose has now passed, I didn’t get that ‘legacy’ feeling that they all
talk about.
We tried to go into the Bow Back Waters around the old
Olympic Park but, 4 years after the event, they are still closed off. I was a
bit miffed that the level of closure wasn’t made particularly clear, either on
boards in the area of the CRT website. We travelled about 300 metres up to City
Mills lock where it is all closed off without any winding hole to turn in, so I
then had to reverse 300 metres back out again. They aren’t keeping the canals
very weed free in there and we repeatedly got weed around the propeller whilst
we were reversing. Not a success story really.
Tomorrow it will a further press along the Lea Navigation in the
hope of reaching Waltham Abbey, if failing in that, any reasonable mooring will
do.
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| The limit of navigation in Bow Back river (without booking) |
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