A lovely sunny, calm morning, and with very few moving boats, it felt like we had the river to ourselves.

 

We followed the instructions at Hanham lock and called the lock keeper, we were told it was safe to proceed and to go straight through the next lock as it will be open – well that doesn’t happen very often….both sides of the lock open!

We duly paid our mooring fees to the lovely lock keeper, and we were given instructions of where to moor.  We offered sticky date cake and continued our journey.

As we entered Bristol, the river widened and the buildings and people increased, it was a sunny lunchtime after all.  There was one foot bridge that we were told would be tight, and touch and go if we would make it.  Oliver went through fine, we had to duck though!

We decided on the harbour inlet mooring, as it overlooks SS Great Britain.  Toby did a grand job of reversing us in on the pontoon – to quite an audience.

 

The lock keeper called to say I’d left my jumper behind and they’d leave it in the office, not long after we see the harbour master’s boat – I thought he was checking for boat licences, he was hand delivering my jumper!!  Last two slices of sticky date cake given as a thank you.

We had a wander around the harbour, and with such a lovely evening, we decided on a BBQ.  Romy and Peter joined us for dinner, having arrived that afternoon in their camper van.