Back to my favourite Wissey.. 3 months later..

Littleport to Wissey Bridge, Rivers Gt Ouse and Wissey, 10 miles 0 locks

Well its not THAT boring the stretch from Ely to Denver.  Maybe it’s where I have got used to being here on the rivers of East Anglia.  In fact I did not find it boring at all!!  There is just so much interest even though the banks are quite high… here a really crooked house.. I don’t know how it is standing there!

Just look at those window ledges.. a lot of the houses on the banks of the river are actually lower than the river as you can see, and we have noticed a lot of them look as though they are about to fall over.  I dread to think what would happen if there was a breach through these high banks, all the water would just ‘tip’ into the fens leaving the river bone dry.

We passed the Ship Inn at the junction of the Gt Ouse and Little Ouse this morning and finalised our decision that we must come back to East Anglia next summer leaving the Little Ouse ‘till then to explore.  We have really enjoyed ourselves over here off the main system, away from the long queues of boats waiting to pass through locks,  hire boats, boats using BW like a motorway etc etc.. so here we will come again next year…

Anyway, today we cruised to the River Wissey, just a mile or so from Denver and the exit of the Gt Ouse to the Middle Levels.  We enjoyed this GOBA mooring way back last May and we were looking forward to spending the Bank Holiday here in these very quite and tranquil surroundings.  In fact only one boat has passed since we moored at lunchtime.. I don’t think many will come this way, it seems the tupperware people don’t like the narrow rivers during late summer because of the weed, but to be honest there is none!

Have yourselves a wonderful weekend whatever you may be doing, for sure I certainly will.