Here I am Rune
Distance 3.4 miles
Total 4123 Locks 264 Tunnels
Running total mileage 6,261.9 miles
Hardly a taxing day, just over 3 miles and a couple of locks, but it does get the last tidal bit over and done with. Didn’t go exactly to plan, I’d asked the lockie yesterday what time to be at the lock today and was told 4pm. Since we were moored only a couple of hundred yards away it wasn’t difficult to be punctual, but at 4pm the place was locked up and deserted. Waited a while and still no sign of a lockie so phoned the number for Denver Lock, no reply. Tried ringing Salters Lode lock and after quite a few ring, got a reply. I asked if they were locking today, to which he replied,”Yes, we’ve done it”. I told him I’d been advised to be there for 4pm, he checked his tide table and confirmed that high tide was 4.30pm so 4 pm is in the window for locking. Said he’d contact the Denver Lockie and we’d get through. Sure enough 10 minutes later the Denver lockie turned up and confirmed that he had told me to be there for 4pm. Apparently they’d sent the earlier boat through at about 3.15pm which would have meant that the tide would still have been flooding (not much though). Our passage to Salters Lode was much the same as the passage down, on high water slack tide so it was dead easy.
Tomorrow we start to ‘explore’ the wilds of the Middle Levels, not sure how interesting it is going to be.
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