Wicken Lode and Fen tires me..

Tues and today – Moored Reach Lode

We spent about 4 hours on the roof on each of the days we have been here.  Luckily nobody has arrived at the visitor moorings, so we have been able to say in this wonderful place and work and play…

The boats in the background are on the private moorings here, and I walked down when Vic had the grinder going to see what the noise was like… could hardly hear it from the boat in the background, and anyway, such a friendly chap.  I spoke to him about us doing the roof, “Ah that is no problem at all, you carry on”  same reaction from the people a couple of boats down who couldn’t hear it anyway.  Well we are only using it for about an hour during the day just to get the worse stuff off the roof.

It seems that the old owners of the boat might have just put paint straight on without any preparation just to tidy NP up before selling her.. it’s not as bad as we had originally thought though

The bridge I am standing on to take that pic above is the entrance to Wicken Lode.. the water is crystal clear around here.. oh the white blob by the boat is a sheet covering up the plants that usually live on the roof, removed and covered while we use the grinder etc.

Wicken Lode itself is very narrow.  At the end is just about enough room to turn round and also at the end is a GOBA mooring big enough for a couple of boats.  Once we have finished the roof we will venture up there.  I have walked for miles around this place already, but not actually been on Wicken Fen yet.  I am saving that till we moor at the end of the Lode maybe next week

Wicken Fen is on the other side of the Lode in this pic…

Pretty remote place this.. good job we got plenty of stores on