On to the River Avon

We left our moorings early today, we take on water before setting of proper, again we are on tick over speed due to the long trail of moored boats. First we pass Claverton,, here in the manor is the American Museum in Britain, housing exhibits of American decrorative from the 17-C to mid 19-C. Also  at Claverton is the pumping station which houses a waterwheel which is one of it kind.

The canal  is wooded one side with rolling hills on the other, we now pass the pretty area called Bathampton 

before the  main housing starts of the city of Bath, we have five locks to negotiate through the centre of the city, luckily we are helped by lockeepers as we pass on through. I could spend all day writing about Bath but here's a link.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,_Somerset

At the end of the fifth lock we are on the River Avon, and as we cruise the river we meet an obstacle to make us stop. The river is being dredged and they have divers in the water marking the rubbish which has been dumped in it, so far they have lifted ten cars and over 500 shopping trolleys plus other things that people discard so easily.

 We only wait about half an hour till we have an escort of a small boat to manoeuvre through the crafts that are cleaning the river.

 They are going to demolish the bridge that crosses the river next week, so hopefully we will be back before that happens. Onwards we carry on down the river we have a few more locks to operate these locks are big and with heavy gates,  we were going to moor in a marina for a few nights and catch the train home, but I phone the marina and they say that they don't do any overnight mooring even though the guide book and the canal app which we have for the IPad says that they did, lucky we found a mooring for tonight on a floating pontoon.

So we have to Change our plan and go to plan B, we will more than likely moor in Bristol and catch the train from their.