Holme

Here I am  Rune

Distance 7.1 miles

Total 4124 Locks  264 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,296.7 miles

Having checked the internet we had a change of plan today and just headed off to Holme at the end of New Dyke. This has been one occasion when the map that I generally work to, Waterway Routes, is wrong. It shows no winding hole at Holme and no mooring. Checking the website of the nearest marina, Bill Fen Marina at Ramsey, they recommend a cruise to this location because it is peaceful and there is a full length winding hole here. Other than the main line LNER railway and a local airfield, it is indeed very peaceful here and it is certainly a mooring that I would recommend.

 

The trip here also wasn’t what I was expecting, it isn’t a widely travelled piece of waterway so I expected to find a lot of reeds and weed, except for the last quarter mile to the mooring, it was clearer than many canals. Speed was generally about 3.3mph which is a whole lot quicker than the 1mph we travelled Reach Lode at!

 

Being able to moor here makes tomorrows trip easier as well, about 5 miles back to Ramsey and then about the same again to Benwick, so an overall distance somewhere around 10 miles, pretty much an average day. The following day may be a bit more testing though, up to Whittlesey Dyke and then around the Twenty Foot river and back to March. That may be a long day.