Wyken to Atherstone

Sunday 14 April

We left Wyken Basin just after 10.00, through Sutton Stop onto the Coventry Canal. The weather was bright and sunny but there was a cold wind. We stopped for lunch near Tuttle Hill, and Steve lit the fire! We were on our way quite quickly and arrived at the top of Atherstone Locks at 2.45. Two VLKs helped us through Top Lock and we worked our way down through 6 more locks meeting other boats at 4 of them. We moored above Lock 8 at 4.20. We had a cup of tea and decided to walk down to Lock 11 to look for a geocache, although by this time the sun had given way to cloud. We failed to find the geocache but had a very pleasant walk. Back to the boat for a meal and a quiet evening. (We look for geocaches most days, but I haven’t recorded the daily details.)

Moored above Lock 8 Atherstone

Locks 8  Miles 13.75                                               Total Locks 8  Total Miles 13.75