Further up the Avon - Craycombe Turn

First job in the morning was a bit of shopping. The high point was provided by the trip to the butcher in Pershore market for some home-pressed tongue and a piece of home-made game pie for lunch.

The diamond-shaped Wyre Lock

Typical Avon view

We left Pershore at 10am with the weather becoming sunny and very warm and the top of the boat getting too hot to touch. The scenery improved up a notch from the "attractive" level to the "delightful" as we slowly cruised up the highly meandering river. At one point we found we were pointing back to Bredon Hill, well south of Pershore!

The improvement to the scenery was matched by an increase in the variety of birds. In one short section I noted cormorant, buzzard, kestrel, little egret, mistle thrush, song thrush and great crested grebe as well as the standard swan, moorhen, mallard, pigeon etc which one sees everywhere.

The top green plaque shows the 2007 flood level

Wherever we go in this area we see reminders of the great flood in 2007. The picture shows the height the water reached above Fladbury Lock - note this is perhaps 5-6 feet above the normal upstream water level, and thus over 12 feet above the downstream level.

At lunchtime we finished our travelling (6 miles and 2 locks) for today at Craycombe Turn, a well maintained mooring out in the countryside. I spent the afternoon with a siesta followed by some work on my OU Maths course to prepare my next assignment while Denise did some beading and cleaned the boat.