Featureless Cruise to Ely

Denver to Ely, Gt River Ouse, 16 miles 0 locks

We left Denver early… the weather wasn’t too bad, but still a biting wind from the north made me wear my heavy winter coat today.  I refused to wear gloves, well I just couldn’t admit to putting gloves on in the third week of May!… So I stuck my hands up my coat sleeve instead!

It was very mundane the trip from Denver to Ely, high banks and very straight sections, one section must have been a couple of miles long in a dead straight line… I didn’t enjoy it much, and it wasn’t until we came to the outskirts of Ely that at last we could see over the banks.. here the cathedral.  It had taken us just 3 hours 20 minutes at a steady relaxed speed not wanting to overheat the engine.

So I don’t have a lot to say about today!   However, we stopped in the centre for diesel at Ely Marina and also to pick up some gas, then moved to the moorings a little further on, mooring next to Pat and Kate who we last saw at Wadenhoe back last month. There are some nice pubs here in Ely, the waterfront is rather attractive, and it’s obvious that they have done a lot to promote the area.

I smelt fish and chips later this evening, and went out in search of the smell, to come back with some really tasty cod and chips…

I do hope this River improves as we go upstream.. We decided not to do the river tributaries that lead off until later in the spring.  Hopefully we will not encounter too much weed then, but we will turn off in a couple of days and make our way down the River Cam to have a look at Cambridge.