Gwyn arrived in good time yesterday for us to enjoy an evening meal at The Curry Inn and then walk back to the mooring. This morning, she decided to have a walk around the area before driving home, so we set off in Chyandour at about 9.00am and I dropped her off at the majestic Avenue Bridge so that she could walk back on local footpaths to where she had parked the car last night.
I, meanwhile, continued on my way towards Wolverhampton. I managed to get a pump-out at Napton Narrowboats at Autherley Junction before turning out onto the Staffs & Worcester canal towards Wombourne.
There was quite a lot of traffic making its way home from the weekend festival at The Bratch; one of which was a little steam boat that I had first seen on Friday evening by Chillington Wharf.
SB Mudlark's hull is from the 1970s, but the single cylinder steam engine is a rebuild of an 1882 engine that was originally in a Leeds and Liverpool canal launch. It really is impressive!
The rest of the journey to Wombourne was unremarkable, and I moored up at the picnic site below Bratch by about 4.00pm.
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