Wolverton Bridge 71, Grand Union Canal – Wednesday 16 May 2012
Yet another easy day – start at 09:00 and finish at 12:00 covering 6 miles with no locks.  The sun has been out all morning and the canal has been busy – there has only been five mobile boats!  One was a St John’s ambulance widebeam that, of course, I met at a blind bridge on a corner (where else, it never seems to be on a straight bit of the canal)!  Another was a little ‘day-boat’ with a steerer, 4 male adults in the hatchway and what looked like half a dozen ladies inside, she seemed a bit low.  There has been the usual run of wildlife, swans in pairs, herons, moorhens, wood pigeons and of course loads of ducks.  On the domestic side a few cats and dogs on boats, one was a husky style with its head stuck out of a catflap, very funny looking.
Some fun in names, last night I was moored near a boat called ‘Ahab’ and as I was breakfasting was passed by ‘Pequod’ – for the non literati that was Ahab’s boat in Moby Dick
Finally ‘Briar Rose’ the Braidbar boat that I saw on Monday at Soulbury has just passed going North