Day 4: Greensforge Lock

Still on the S & W we began the day by negotiating the Bratch Flights afely without any advice or help from the lock keeper so we must have been doing something right!

Due to my recent operation I was banned from actually operating the locks! Locks are my favourite part of canal cruising, every time I operate a lock I marvel at the efficiency and simplicity of the mechanisms. As a result of the ban (and Katkatkat's vigilance) it did mean I got more opportunities to use my camera at the locks.

This shot shows clickychick bringing Solace into Greensforge Lock with Katkatkat and G standing by having just filled the lock and opened the gates. Greensforge is quite a deep lock having a change of levels of nine feet.

Weather wise a mixed day with what turned out to be the longest (and heaviest) rain we were to get all holiday. However it didn't last long and CC did a sterling job holding a brolly!

As we were more or less half way through the holiday we went just past Kinver lock and started to head back towards Great Haywood, mooring for the night out in the country near the aqueduct over the Stour. The area is marked in the guide books as the "Devild Den" just opposite where we tied up there was a door on a cave cut into the sandstone. Why this was there we could not work out but suspect it might have had uses while the canal was being dug.