{"id":1280,"date":"2017-06-17T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2017-06-18T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T17:50:28","slug":"too-hot-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Too Hot To Handle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things changed a bit last night and more and more boats arrived at the floating pontoon as a boat party had been organised for the weekend. \u00a0They were a lovely crowd and invited us to stay for the party. \u00a0We politely declined as we wanted to make at least a little progress tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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A little crowded<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While those on boats were pretty quiet the same could not be said of the bridge jumpers who continued to play loud music and make lots of noise until the early morning.<\/p>\n

We slipped away at 8 am again to beat the crowd to the moorings between locks 10 and 11 in Bath. \u00a0There were some really lovely stretches along the river and we were all on our own again for some time. \u00a0We were lucky enough to spot a Kingfisher too. \u00a0Then we met lots of boat club members all out for their training runs in sculling. \u00a0The ones broadside on as we approached Weston lock caused some concern!<\/p>\n

Some of the gates were very heavy so Romy did most of the lock entries, all but one in fact. \u00a0She was even brave enough to tackle the Bath Deep Lock. \u00a0It was very pleasant enjoying the scene at Thimble Mill Basin but the knowledge of having to tackle the Deep Lock next was not so pleasant.<\/p>\n

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Thimble Mill Basin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Entering Bath Deep Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Romy looking nonchalant in the Deep Lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We arrived at our destination at around 13:30. \u00a0Once everything was sorted out Peter had a rest as he was cream crackered in spite of getting some assistance with the gates at the Deep Lock. \u00a0Oliver’s thermometer was reading 31 but climbed to 43 later on in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

By the evening there were seven boats moored in this short section and several more arrived late and failing to find a space had to keep going. \u00a0Starting early obviously paid off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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