Details of the GOBA / #FundBritainsWaterways campaign cruise on the Great Ouse to the Bedford River Festival in July are now available.
A great opportunity for boaters on the Anglian waterways to join in this year's campaign cruises.
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#FundBritainsWaterways and save our canals and rivers for future generations
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Morning Mist
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Fried eggs with a touch of chilli and luscious herby mushrooms on brown bread, a recycled gren glass of water to drink Mismatching cutlery of stainless steel is at the ready.
Sunday Brunch
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Noisy neighbours!
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Head-on encounter with a Heron!
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A Moorhen (dead centre, zoom in) on the cut Dark water reflects greening trees The water is still.
There's always a Moorhen!
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A large rectangular solar panel reflects and glistens a Spring sun through trees just starting to green up A low square church tower is silhouetted on the skyline
Morning sunlight giving me power....
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Photo of a narrowboat about to pass under a modern road bridge on a tree-lined canal, with Canal and River Trust canoes tied up to the offside in the foreground.
Birmingham & Warwick Junction Canal, one of the later canals not completed until 1844, long after canal mania had subsided and just as railway mania was beginning to get up a head of steam.
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On #WorldBoatingDay on 23 May come and meet the #FundBritainsWaterways campaign team in the Boating Marquee at the Crick Boat Show.
Or catch up with some of the campaigners and their boats at Stafford Boat Club during the 2026 campaign cruise.
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My life
Blue sky
Green fields
Locks!
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The #FundBritainsWaterways campaign is supporting #WorldBoatingDay, a non-profit open day bringing all kinds of events together to celebrate leisure boating.
World Boating Day 2026 will be celebrated on 23 May, with events taking place 18–24 May.
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I'm on holiday (such as you get a holiday when you're on a boat) and so went back to sleep.
Just had croissants, butter and Apricot jam + coffee for breakfast 😋 (at lunch time!)
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Decaying red brick factory walls with some unsightly graffitti rise from the canal in shade. Prefab roofing of the industrial units is lit up by the sun. A fiercely blue sky outlines the sharp angles of the buildings.
Tbh the view is not terrible, but its almost better in the dark!
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Woke up early.
Dark and cool.
But.....
Morning chorus was lovely
{Sound up}
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Sonetimes the mooring is less picturesque
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Photo of a narrowboat emerging from a short tunnel and about to pass moored boats in a pastoral, tree-lined stretch of canal at the end of a sunny day.
Pleasant place to moor near Curdworth tunnel on the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal at the end of a sunny day of eight difficult locks made bearable by having superstar vlockies at three of them.
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Narrow field of view
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A golden setting sun through trees on the horizon outlines the canal bridge in the distance. A wisp of high cottonwool high cloud set against a light blue sky is reflected in the waters of the canal. A bright green towpath and trees edge the frame.
Sunset on the cut
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Water is dripping from the top gate of a lock. The bricks and wood are wet. Blue sky and bright sunlight bathe the lockgate and a lone flower.
Another free Canal water feature....!
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Photo of a canal on a late sunny afternoon with a brick pub next to a towpath lined with pub benches and, in the distance, a lock and small bridge.
Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, Curdworth Lock 9, Cheatles Farm Bridge and the Dog and Doublet, all dating back to the late 18th century (the canal was completed 1789, just before canal mania swept the British landscape).
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Photo of a fuel boat turning off the Coventry Canal to head down the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal. The narrowboat is 70ft long and came in from the left, a tight turn on the best of days, and a real challenge when the wind didn't want the boat to turn and tried its best to wedge it across the canal.
The most excellent Jules Fuels NB Bargus, which has been an absolute angel over the last four months supplying me with coal, fuel and a tow, at Fazeley Junction on the Coventry Canal.
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From one lock to another....
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A grassy offside canal bank. The cut is ruffled by a stiff breeze. A blue sky lightens to white.
A slightly pixelated zoom into the sunlit grassy field shows two Moorhens scuttling away from the camera.
Evening cruise.
2 x Moorhens!
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(Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness)
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Photo of the front half of a narrowboat against the towpath, the canal a short distance ahead blocked by a fallen tree
#Boatlife day 489
Tree stopped play on the Llangollen two years ago.
And today, day 1294, on the feisty edges of Storm Dave, I'm listening to the branches of trees next to my boat clacking together like the bones of skeletons 🫣🌬️🍃🛥️
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Free water feature....
An overgrown lock overflow on an English Canal.
Love this !
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An old and weathered red brick bridge straddles a broad canal. In the distance, through the bridge, a patch of reeds brightened gold by the sun can be seen next to the gates of a canal lock. The edge of a narrowboat is glimpsed on the left side of the view
Happy Friday!
A lovely spot to moor up.
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Sunrise rays on reeds
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Drake and wake
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A green day on the cut
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