From Hilgay, River Wissey and back onto River Great Ouse to moor at Ten Mile bank
Such a contrast in weather today, cold and grey skies - soon be summer. We continued up the River Wissey and came to a huge British Sugar Beet plant, not a pretty sight in the middle of such rural tranquillity. At the time of the beet harvest, farmers for miles around queue to deliver their crops to the plant. On the opposite bank are acres of low level glass houses growing tomatoes, using the heat exhaust from the sugar beet plant. We can vouch that the tomatoes from there are very sweet and a great flavour, as the cheery butcher in Hilgay had some for sale. We turned round in a huge lake, which appeared to be used exclusively by British Sugar fisher folk.
Our mooring this evening is on the river again, using a new Environment Agency facility at Ten Mile Bank. Having just looked at the Ten Mile Bank history site, this stretch of the river actually froze earlier this year! it could do again any day!
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