all right that's an hour-long tunnel
you look really gleeful what did I do? 36 minutes 36 minutes?! And I'm the lead footed wife!
I had my I held my pace I didn't do anything faster than I was that I maybe
I was speeder maybe you are
so hello and welcome to today's episode we have just exited Netherton Tunnel
And we are heading up
to the BCM main line where we will turn left towards...
the endgame is Wolverhampton but we're not gonna get that far today yeah we're
doing the Wolverhampton locks today we're gonna have lunch at the next tunnel
south of the next tunnel
we're gonna have lunch south of the next tunnel and then on to the Wolverhampton locks
after lunch unless its pretty south of the tunnel
this is some of the clearest canal water I have ever seen
I can literally see the rocks and the shopping trolleys as we're cruising
awesome carrier bags like it's so clear and the weeds we are on the Birmingham mainline now
it's glorious it's majestic it's big it's straight
and quite shallow because we can see how shallow is and it's very very clear
which i think is a really good sign for wildlife in general
it's really hard not being on a glass-bottom boat and just like looking
over and identifying everything
we should have put our underwater camera in
so I'm off to the next lock I have my trusty screwdriver and my pulling the
weeds out of the lock pole the anti-vandal key that we have is not the
best so I'm gonna try the screwdriver trick so it didn't work on that side
have crossed the lock over I'm gonna give it a go on this side
so that didn't
work either so Plan B Kath's gonna it give it a go
just in case you're curious we have to go with Plan C which was to find a
random boater and ask if we could use their anti-vandal key they came over
they really struggled with it as well but they were able to open one of the
two paddles so if you are at
factory top lock this is factory top lock and you're a little
bit worried about your anti-vandal key because we know ours needs replacing
then you might struggle as well
we see all that weed I just can't get to the rest of that weed and it's driving
me a little bit insane because I'm a little bit of OCD of wanting to get all
of it out of the canal I guess that's just autumn though isn't it
one drama after another I honestly thought that was concrete we couldn't reach
it so we didn't just leave it, well we did leave it there but...
what did you think of those factory locks honey
It's a tad windy today as well but it is beautiful it's a beautiful day it's just
this canal this part of the canal is very very
weedy
and we're hungry so I think I'm gonna go put the lunch on while Kath looks
for a mooring spot That would be good. I'm very hungry
Yeah, maybe a three tunnel day
We have to stop for lunch
is there anything in the book that says where we can stop?
we decided to cruise through lunch cuz we didn't know this part of the canal
there was no where to stop There was nowhere to stop south of Cosley tunnel
There's three bollards but they're currently encased in some wet cement
we thought that that wouldn't be polite to
moor there
I think that's also the tunnel waiting spot
so we might actually end up doing the locks today which is what I wanted to do anyway
No you didn't I did I've always No you didn't Liar liar pants said today we're doing
all the locks Yeah but you didn't mean it!
Kath wants to see if there's a mooring spot just before we get to them
I think there is another tunnel between us and them yeah three tunnel day three tunnels I'm
doing all the tunnels I'm smashing it
Literally. Bang bang bang bang bang bang
Its a bit narrow here isn't it for no reason
just so this van can park
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