Date - 26/04/08 Day - Saturday Start - 0930 End - 1230 End of Wendover Arm
When I looked out this morning one of the bottom gates was open so I set off to take advantage of it. After this there was quite a bit of water coming over the bottom gates of the locks. At Lock 4 there was a boat waiting to come down but didn't do anything, Diana went up to them and they said they were waiting for us to come through first even though the lock was full and a boat was following them down, so they then decided to wait for the boat behind, by now the towing path was under water as 2 lock fulls had dropped into the short pound and behind us a widebeam boat had just locked up. It turned out that although the people coming down had owned there boat for a year this was the first time they had used a lock, so they must have spent the last 12 months on the Tring summit. We turned into the Wendover arm and went straight past the winding hole without turning round and reversing down for the first time ever. There were 7 boats moored down the arm before we arrived and made our way right to the end, somewhere we have not been before. After lunch we went for a walk along the disused arm to the point where its in water again. Here Magic took the opportunity to have a cooling swim in the crystal clear water. The trust have built two wooden foot bridges along this section that they have attached plaques to, listing the benefactors who raised the cash to build them. When we returned to the boat there were even more boats moored down the arm. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Join SOW and help save our waterways http://www.saveourwaterways.org
