Day 38 – Flecknoe to Claydon
So here I am at the second large flight of locks on the Oxford/Coventry canal.
It’s a place called Claydon, where the TV reception ain’t so good and there’s lots of sheep around.
There was a dead sheep in the canal. I was behind this novice boater swerving around and I looked down and saw a dead sheep floating in the canal!
Crazy.
There were sheep escaped at Napton.
I guess they have a roving sheep problem in these area. I know it’s a wool production area.
Very pretty
The countryside around here is very pretty.
I take my camera out a number of times, but the shots with a compact don’t do it justice.
Still, it gives you some idea.
Napton locks is series of 9 or so locks to the backdrop of the village of Napton-on-the-hill.
As I chat to the CRT volunteer, of which there is only one, she tells me 15 boats have come past today. I think this is a lie, as she also told me it takes about 1 hour to get through the locks when it took about 2.5.
Still, at 10am. 5 Boats have already come past me either way, it’s still not 15.
I tell her I also feel it’s going to be a busy day. …