During breakfast we noticed that the boat was leaning a bit - and that the lean was getting more pronounced. This is usually a symptom of being aground at the edge and the water continuing to get lower. Fearing being completely aground we struggled to re-float the boat and went through the next lock as quickly as possible. At the lock we teamed up with an ex-hire boat owned by a lovely family. They had just bought the boat and were taking it home to Pewsey on the K&A.
Coming down the Stockton flight, Maisy found a little bundle of fluff on the towpath and started sniffing at it - a baby heron! There were no trees around or anywhere it could have fallen from so Annie brought it back to the boat. Butt ugly little thing. Heron is now named Stockton and we will try and keep him alive longer than Duck! Fortunately we still have the cat food we got for duck and Stockton seems to eat it - though he cant open his beak, Annie has to force it in.
Having said goodbye to the family who were heading down the Oxford canal, we arrived in Braunston at 4.30pm and moored near the junction. Walked into the village in the evening and had a drink at the Plough Arms.
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| Meet Stockton the Heron |
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| The Blue Lias |
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| Sharing lock with nice family we didnt get the name of. |
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| Are we nearly there yet? |
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| Flowers Annie and Julie bought in Southport are still looking good |
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