Denver.. and things are cool!!!

Ely to Denver (Hooray!!), River Gt Ouse, 17 miles 0 locks

Blimey, all those miles and no overheating at all!  Thank goodness for that.. sorted!

The 17 miles took just 3 and half hours, that is errrrrr… well calculator says 4.85 miles an hour, not bad going.. or is it?  Quite a bit of this river has a speed limit on it … hope we didn’t get caught here….

But look at that pic, an absolutely gorgeous day for this important trip.. a proving ground for us, and we both had our fingers crossed for most of the day.  Didn’t go mad, but gave No Problem a good steady test today, no stopping and for the first time for quite a while no overheating.

So this morning we pulled the pins on Ely.. I really did get to like it a lot, so many visitors to No Problem too which I really enjoyed, and so many comments today on my blogs, which of course I will reply to later.. and also emails of good wishes arriving in my email box today, again will reply to you all in time..

Passed NB Poppy at the Brandon Creek turn off, and the skipper shouted over his best wishes to us now we are on the move.. It sure is amazing all the people who read this blog.. I started it off a couple of years ago just for the family so they would save in phone calls because I would write something each day that they could see!

‘Tis a bit boring from Ely to Denver, we learned that last year.  I would rather do it in one hit.. today Vic took the tiller for a lot of the way while I squared over No Problem, did a ton of washing and put away battery chargers, leads, tools etc etc that have been our lifeline for the last couple of weeks or so.. checked over and watched the electrical system making sure that was operating OK.

Denver is an odd place, this taken very late this evening, note NP over the far side of the river on the left..

Remote, very remote really, but not so remote that I can’t get the 3g network on orange and a faster connection speed, but it is a place I like to wander round.. a huge complex of sluices and locks.  A relief channel takes water to Kings Lynn adds to the amount of water channels around here. 

Not only that but also a straight ‘drain’, a very wide drain that takes the tidal water from the Gt Ouse in a dead straight line to Earith a long way upstream from Denver.  It is a shortcut from here to the upper reaches of the Gt Ouse..

The tide was out at Denver late this evening, and this is were we will exit from the lock at 8.30ish in the morning…

We will go straight on along that channel tomorrow.. not like last year when it was dreadfully silted up, and we had to take a different route.. do have a look at this blog post I did.. you can see the difference this year to last.. LINK

So hopefully we will be in March tomorrow evening.. just got to make sure I remember in the morning to wedge in the vases of flowers and take off the ornaments on the shelf just in case I get it wrong turning into Salters Lode and the Middle Levels.. no doubt you will all wish me luck!!