On the moorings at Stanley Ferry
That's river speed
These locks are enormous and are fully automated
There are some big boats on this navigation.
Like this, the Rix Owl is a 600 ton oil tanker and the tiddler on the left is me, we met on a bend and he was in a hurry.
There are some big Carp in Clarence Dock, this one had a taste for bread.
Clarence Dock Leeds, a very nice spot to spend a couple of days, next to the Royal Armouries Museum.
We have had a very good week, the weather has picked up at last and we arrived in Leeds on Thursday afternoon. All the locks on the Aire & Calder Navigation are fully automated and the traffic lights tell you what to do, the locks them selves are enormous to suit the commercial barges and tanker that use this part of the waterway. This meant that the girls had a break from winding paddles and pulling on lock beams for a couple of days.
Clarence Dock was a nice surprise, the moorings are pontoons with electricity and water and are kept very clean, although there are large blocks of flats on two sides and the museum on the third you don't feel closed in. There is a Tesco Express close by and plenty of shops to browse in, the moorings are 48 hrs but you can buy an extra day from the BW office just across the river, which is what we had to do as our son Martin and the two grandchildren Ethan and Ptolemy were coming to visit us on Saturday for a visit to the Armouries Museum. It's 6 months since we last saw the boys and of course they have changed quite a bit, they enjoyed their visit to the museum and afterwards we went for a meal before they left for home. Sorry boys I took pics with the wrong camera and can't put them on the blog.
Thats all folks
Talk next week
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