On our waterway journey again

Today we broke our mooring in Castle Marina, a big thank you to the staff and our old neighbours that helped us whilst we been there,and our journey began , bur firstly  over old familiar  ground or more precisely   water, so back down the Beeston canal and through the lock on to the River Trent, the river warning was at Orange, which means proceed with caution, which we did, beginning with donning our life jacket, but the river was fine almost   like a mill pond, the sun did try to shine through the grey sky, but the wind was chilling.

The river was ours and no one else's today not passing a single boat we passed the houses that sit on the stilts and wondered if they were alright in the winter floods, and pass fields of geese grazing the farmers crops, then we reached Cranfleet lock and canal beyond it, this lock is a double and when Denise open the paddle the force of the water tosses the boat around in the lock, but no damage thankfully.Once through the lock we pass a few permit only mooring before find our mooring for the night, which is not far from where we moored last year, and settle down for the night.

Not a lot of information about this area, just to say Thrumpton a unspoilt village and  Thrumpton Hall which is famous for its oak stair case which dates from Charles 2nd era is close by.

See you tomorrow . Steve