Engine start 556.4 08:15
Engine stop 561.6 13:30 = 5.25 hours
Miles: 7 Locks: 5 Lock miles: 12
At last, a clear blue sky!
Paused at the water and elsan points at Ellesmere then a journey frequently slowed by moored boats - not many moving though.
At Frankton by 11:00, the last of the day's bookings. At the moorings there was a launch style boat: very beautiful more about shiny brass than boats - certainly had a LOT of fenders deployed to stop any nasty scratches...
A stately procession down the locks with CRT lockkeeper very much in charge. Fantastic views over countryside then down onto the Monty for the first time. Have never seen so many damsel and dragon flies, water boatmen, skimmers, all sorts.
Canal sides overgrown the whole way for the first part of the canal so lunch on the move and stopped in the last available space by the Queens Head - a quite noisy mooring by a busy road but the only one available since the service point below the locks. ADS quite tired as not able to sit all day due to drying varnish on the steerer's seat.
Second coat of varnish applied at the end of the afternoon then table booked for meal at the Queens Head - our first pub visit since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. Very nice meal (ADS: pizza and AJS: paella as recommended by the Frankton lockkeeper). Staff very well organised for social distancing, contact tracing etc so felt pretty safe. Still weird to be among other people though...
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