Date - 06/07/08 Day - Sunday Start - irthlingbourough End - Titchmash
Harnser's present position http://tinyurl.com/harnser6 We started at our normal 10 am to mixed weather, some rain, some sun and always wind. The wildlife today has been fish, namely pike, as the water on this river is gin clear and you can see the bottom in places. One pike was only about 45cm long, but the other was the top side of 60 cm, in addition there have been loads of other fish but nothing larger than 10 cm. We moored just before the footbridge above Denford Lock and walked over the meadow to the pub, less than 5 minuets. This use to be called "The Cock Inn" but is now known as "The Inn at Denford" They had 4 beers on the pumps and have only been doing food for two weeks. We had the Ribeye Beef with Yorkshire pudding, mash, roast potato, leeks, cauliflower, broccoli, sweet potato, butternut squash, roast parsnip and gravy. This was followed by Cheese cake and Apple and walnut cake. Coffee with chocolates, a pint of beer each, all for around £30 and it was all delicious. If you are passing this way by boat or car I would recommend a visit, but do it before it gets well known. After lunch we continued on in heavy rain passing through Thrapston, here ther are small visitor moorings just above the old town bridge and a very large visitor mooring below the lock by the sailing club, this looks to be a new EA structure about 50m long. However our plan was to moor just below Titchmash lock on the EA visitor moorings. Titchmash lock has a massive amount of water going over the top gates and the boat we watched going up didn't even bother to open the top paddles, they just waited for it to fill over the gates. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Join SOW and help save our waterways http://www.saveourwaterways.org
