Lechlade to Radcot, River Thames (or Isis)
A much cooler, overcast day - 2 out of 10 compared to yesterday.
Our day started when we heard the strange sound of some young heifers licking the side of the boat, to get the dewy moisture! One really took a liking to Bob, look at those eyes! (Bob's were a bit dewy!)
Sunday papers purchased, and so we made our way to the limit of navigation, just beyond Lechlade, and turned by a pretty house, as you can see. This is where the Cotswold Canal trust are trying to restore the Thames and Severn Canal to Saul Junction on the Glos and Sharpness Canal.
Then back down 3 locks with a new set of cheery lock keepers, to moor at Radcot, where there is just a pub and a post box AND we think at last, we have seen some bank voles! they were messing about in a quiet corner of a camping field, under some moored boats.
Apparently the boat Elizabeth dates from about 1870 and is probably one of the earliest narrowboats still in use. Shame about the motorbike thrown on it.
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