Retirement with No Problem

Stretham to Aldreth, 5.5 miles 0 locks

We pulled the pins mid morning hoping to miss the heavy showers that were forecast.  This is a very remote part of the fen land, the bit between Popes Corner where the River Cam goes off all the way to Heritage Lock.  It is known as the Old West River along this stretch, and in places it is really quite narrow..

A lot of people think this bit is boring, where as I find it very peaceful and quiet.  If you look hard enough you can see many wild birds, today there were oyster catchers and egrets to be spotted along the way among the long grasses and reeds of the damp flood banks which stretch back quite a way both sides.. but soon the inevitable happened while I was making a cuppa…

From inside looking out the galley window, a real downpour.. but it didn’t last too long.  I got well stuck on a bend after letting a faster plastic boat go past.. took a while to get off the mud with the wind trying hard to put No Problem on the bank.. but we didn’t have to spend the night there, and not too long afterwards, we put the pins in at one of my favourite moorings on the river at Aldreth..

And we meet them again.. a whistle from President got me scrambling on the roof for yet another pic of the motor and butty Kildare in full steam, having been to Cambridge they were now on their way to Bedford..

You can see the river bank in the picture above, and scrambling to the top this is the view…

And here Vic, Lucy, Meg and Moore2Life’s Jack Russell Molly standing on the top of the bank.. I wonder what Vic has in his hand that is causing so much attention from the K9s.. Teehee!

Meg has been sitting out on top of that bank all evening just looking across at the open farmland, she simply loves it here.. well they both like this place, heh just like me!! ..

Ho hum, better take them for a wander.. and looking at that pic, I think it will be up to that house that you see in the distance, along the drove to those trees on the right, to make our way along another drove back to No Problem.. for sure there is plenty of walking around here..