Proud mum and her 12 ducklings

 Marks home made scones with jam and clotted cream .... Delicious

Avon Gorge

 Canal side cafe in Bradford on Avon

 From the bridge

Bradford on Avon

Well I can honestly say this is a one of the most beautiful towns I have been to. I admit the glorious weather helped along with the very friendly boaters met a nice group from Canada and a couple doing exactly what we are doing but are a year ahead of us. The town is so pretty it seemed to be made up of tea shops, pubs and charity shops .. Right up our street. We stayed 2 days and we moored up last night near Freshford. This stretch of the K&A is just stunning and I drove the boat over my first aqueduct( with no dramas ). We fired up the BBQ last night, good food a few beers, not much more we need really 🙂

Boat of the day ... Nice bit of aluminium fabrication ! 

The  money shot 

S

I love herons, they're so patient and always look grumpy 

                 

one of the river trolls on the Caen hill flight

The daunting Caen hill flight, I imagine the scene of many a domestic.

A couple of nesting swans right by the lock boaters and dogs beware ! 

Caen hill flight !

Well having left Pewsey we have chugged down the K&A to Devizes, an overnight stop on the outskirts then the challenge, 28 locks in succession was hard going we had the odd help here and there and a lot of gongoozlers (bystanders) It took us about about 4 hours to do all the locks and we moored up last night at the bottom of the flight, and promptly fell asleep watching a video, sorry no pics have got a problem uploading hopefully sort that soon ... Louise