Wicken Lode

Yesterday and Today – Moored Bottom of Wicken Lode

A couple of feet behind where we have moored is a little wooden bridge.. we had to back into here after turning where Wicken Lode ends and Monks Lode, our mooring starts.  This is the most wonderful mooring, and has overtaken my number one favourite mooring of Gateforth Landing up on the Selby Canal.

I am absolutely in my element here, such is the outstanding natural beauty of this place, there can be no where like it anywhere on the Inland Waterways.  Yesterday was taken up with washing the boat the best we could in the morning and walking for miles upon miles with Lucy… we were both very tired on our return, but well worth it!

Today we rubbed down the first coat of undercoat, and applied another…. well I did the rubbing down and Vic got to work with the paint brush… This afternoon…. hey guess what?  I didn’t go walking!!

Instead the rod came out!! It’s the first day of the new fishing season… well Lucy and I needed a rest after our very long jaunt of yesterday!   She was a bit miffed though, and I felt guilty, so after catching my first fish of the season, a roach, we wandered off for a couple of miles into this lovely National Trust area.

We have had the end of the Lode all to ourselves this last couple of days, but by late afternoon a narrowboat arrived, and another about half hour after that.  There isn’t that much room here, NP was as far back as possible to the little footbridge behind her, so the first boat having moored giving himself some space, had to move back to let the third one in… it took quite some doing to get three in the very limited space.

If it’s not too hot in the morning the top coat of non-slip will go on the roof… mmm now where did I put that masking tape?