It was another very cold night with a hard frost and ice on the boat and its ropes this morning.
We were in urgent need of a pump-out so I decided to get up early and move Chyandour up through Kinver lock to access the sani-station. Arriving there by about 7.15am, we had breakfast before doing the necessary.
We were on our way by about 9.00am and it got quite busy with far more boats going the same way as us than those in the other direction. A group of 6 American tourists were making way quite slowly two boats in front of us, and didn't seem to have got the hang of getting off their boat to assist others! There was also a guy single-handed in Sam Gunter behind us and a working boat behind him.
So it was Gwyn and the lady off Rachel (immediately in front of us) who did most of the locking until Rachel managed to overtake the Americans. Then the guy from the boat behind was most helpful until he stopped, whereupon the crew from the working boat helped out.
We moored up for lunch below Swindon lock and eventually arrived back at Wombourne about 2.30pm.
A good day weather-wise and the end of a very pleasant post-Easter break.
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