{"id":1338,"date":"2017-06-23T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2017-06-24T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T14:44:32","slug":"moving-to-the-down-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Moving to the Down Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were still on the long pound (nothing to do with Brexit) in the early morning and enjoying the countryside. We didn\u2019t experience any problems with the water level but we hadn\u2019t seen any other boats and were able to stay in the middle all the time.\u00a0 It also meant we were on our own in all the locks which were sometimes quite hard work. Lock 54 has a somewhat scary reputation and we approached it with care but it treated us very kindly. \u00a0Soon after we saw the last remaining timber wharf-side crane at Burbage Wharf.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1339\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1339\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-1-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-1.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burbage Crane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Through the Bruce tunnel and we were on the summit where we spotted a Red Kite. Unfortunately the picture won&#8217;t win any prizes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1341\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1341\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Kite &#8211; almost!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The procedure at the locks was just about to change as lock 102 became our first descent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1340\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1340\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-2-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-2.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The start of our descent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We were also on our own though the next four locks only being joined by another boat at lock 60.\u00a0 We were pleased to get a mooring opposite the Crofton Pumping Station but slightly perturbed when the water level dropped and we stopped floating! The level rose again after a couple of hours and all was well.<\/p>\n<p>We had another good country walk to Wilton Windmill and admired the pretty village, very picture postcard looking.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1342\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1342\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/23-June-4.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilton Windmill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were still on the long pound (nothing to do with Brexit) in the early morning and enjoying the countryside. We didn\u2019t experience any problems with the water level but we hadn\u2019t seen any other boats and were able to stay in the middle all the time.\u00a0 It also meant we were on our own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=1338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moving to the Down Side<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-lA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}