Prickwillow to Isleham in wonderful weather

Today – Prickwillow to Isleham, River Lark, 6 miles 1 lock
Yesterday – Moored Prickwillow

Yesterday we finished playing ‘do the watertank’. The paint on the tank was really dry and rock solid by lunch time, so we started the process of sanitising the system by adding a measured amount of bleach to 30 gallons of water.  This then had to be pulled through NP’s water system until I could smell chlorine coming through all taps.  It was all shut down at that point and a wait of 4 hours for the solution to do its stuff before flushing it all through until the water smelt and tasted like water should!

Everybody who arrived at the moorings were very patient with us, although we didn’t actually moor right on the water point, we were moored right in the middle of the 48hr mooring making it difficult for others to fit in.  Everyone was in happy mood though which was nice..  It was also lovely to meet Jennifer and Graham on NB Best O’ Mates, they were amazed when a Tesco delivery man stopped by the moorings delivering a few bits and bobs to us!

Anyway….

Today… We pulled the pins this morning and continued up this lovely river.  We found a bunch of keys yesterday left in the lock of the waterpoint.  I had stuck a note on the waterpoint last night saying we had the keys and to contact us.. but as we relaxed on the back deck this morning over breakfast a very warm chap asked for keys!  I say warm, he had cycled from Ely and it was pretty hot this morning too.. poor chap, his son had left them when they called for water… he was so pleased to get them back.. “I didn’t expect to ever see them again” said he.  We told him we were just about to leave to continue upstream.. “Ah you will enjoy that, you will see kingfishers dripping off the trees up there”… What a lovely saying!!

This is a very interesting building, known locally as ‘Pepperpot, it is eight sided and really quite crooked.  It is in fact a surviving fenland windmill.  This is now somebody’s house!  There were curtains in the windows.. The bank was too high to see anything much more than what the pic shows though..

On through Isleham lock…

We moored a little further on at the GOBA moorings.. the fishing was great this afternoon and the walk with Lucy spectacular this evening… my backyard today then….

I like it here… it’s very quiet.. but mind you I seem to like it anywhere we have moored during this summer.