Marsworth to Berkhamsted – (Gas Lock 2)

29 July – definitely on boat mode 

Up at 6.30 Breakfast (Vogel’s toast – yum). Moved on by 8.30 and straight into locks, very low water on pounds and CRT on site moving water down as required. Spectacular scenery - Vicki had a grand time closing gates and snapping pictures as Roger went ahead to set the next lock. Throughout the day we all wondered at some stage what day is it - no idea.

 New building development happening in Marsworth

 At first lock we meet boats coming out and ours coming in, making the first lock very easy apart from me getting side tracked taking photo's of a Heron

 He posed very nicely

Locks climb for a while until we get to the summit at Tring which is 3 miles through country side and a long deep cutting. 

 A walk between locks gives you a good view of reservoir and nice shots of boats - Pete driving into lock and Mary in control of Dorinda

This ends at Cowroast – not a BBQ but a town that every time a boat crosses this summit uses 200.000 gallons of water in locks up and down. That explains the low pounds. There is also the old lock gate building depot now days making garden sculptures at Bulbourne.

 Everyone hard at work at the locks - Pete and Mary talking and Roger reading

Have definitely seen some cool boats along the way

After Cowroast the canal starts to drop downhill again and the locks get a little easier. As we had got to the summit a lot quicker than we thought we have moved on again after lunch to Berkhamsted and stopped at 4.

Drinks on Dorinda with Roger & Mary. Then Vicki & I went off into town for a Thai Restaurant dinner 9.5/10 and only 5 minutes from the boat. http://thaicottage.com/

TOTAL 6 miles, 13 locks