The Black Country Living Museum is a great day out. (Reminded us of Sovereign Hill.) but a different era, actually it spans a number of eras. The only thing they couldn't recreate was the pollution, according to one of the guides during the industrial revolution you would never see the sun due to the smoke from all industry burning coal. Must have stunk and caused alot of health problems.
When leaving Birmingham we travelled through another long tunnel. (The Netherton Tunnel 3Km's long). And passed many more disused canals which have been blocked off and often built over.
This took us onto the Dudley canal and a heap of locks, From Dudley to the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal we did 31 locks and they were all against us, we were pretty tired when we arrived at Kinver. (Bugger cooking, we had tea at the pub). At the start of the locks we met a family where the young fella was showing some interest in how the system worked. We gave him a windlass and let him help for a couple of locks. He was keen to stick with us but his mum and cousin wanted to see the glass factory which was further on.
Later in the day while we were still doing locks the young fella came belting down the hill "I'm back do you need any more help" he said. He did one more lock then we asked if he wanted a ride on the boat through the lock. His mum was a bit apprehensive but relented. That was the end of the help, all he and his cousin wanted to do was ride on the boat while we did the locks. We parted ways at the turn off to Stourbridge and we continued on to Stourport.
Sunday was a warm day and the canal was pretty, but skinny at times. The locks were busy and we struck up a friendship with a family on a boat in front of us who we ended up locking with. We stopped at Kidderminster for supplies and were looking for somewhere to moor for the night. We saw them sitting in the beer garden at the Bird in Hand pub and decided that looked like a great idea. Why not stop for a pint. It all got pretty messy from there but a great evening was had by all.
Monday was cold, wet, windy and miserable so we said bugger this we're stopping here for the day. We lit the fire and sat around reading. (Something we haven't done since starting out).
Tuesday onto the Severn River we went. Still VERY windy but going with the current we had the old girl hopping. Conditions were quite tricky so we stopped early and moored at Worcester near the racecourse. We went into town for a look around.
Up early the next morning it was still very windy but we decided to head for Tewkesbury, and the Avon River. We couldn't see much on the way as the river banks are quite high, we did come across a couple of working boats carrying aggregate. It feels quite strange on the river to have so much space. You could turn around anywhere.
Tonight we're moored up on the Avon River at Tewkesbury which is a picturesque town with lots of Tudor Buildings and was where the War of the Roses took place in 1471.
06/06/2024 - Coogee Beach Today we arrived at Coogee Beach. Ken had a spare part for the ute that he ordered over a month ago so we drove to Canning and picked it up. We came back through Fremantle to get the lay of the land and it started to bucket down with rain so we headed back to camp and will come back another day. 07/06/2024 - Perth Supreme Court Finally, we made it to Perth. We caught the train from Cockburn Station, the train runs down the centre of the freeway. It took us right into the CBD. From there we walked down Barrack St to the Bell Tower. It was built for the Millenium and bellringers ring the bell at 12pm every day. Bell tower. South Perth We wandered around the dock area and since we had a day pass we caught the ferry across the Swan River to South Perth, not much to see here so we came back again. Perth skyline. Rhino. Next was the arts precinct. We looked around the State Library and then headed for the Museum, a little beauty. W...
9th May - 11th May On the first day, we drove to Koroit, a small town halfway between Warrnambool and Port Fairy. We had planned to stay two nights but in the end, we stopped for three and were given the third night free at the caravan park. A lot of business were closed as they had the Irish Festival the week before and most of the town had tested positive for COVID. On the first day, we went to Warrnambool. At the Thunder Point lookout, we got chatting to some whale watchers (we didn't see any whales) who recommended Hopkins Falls as a local place to visit. So after our walk around Thunder Point, we headed out to the falls. At the falls we got talking to some more locals who recommended the Trestle Bridge on the Timboon - Camperdown rail trail and the Timboon Ice cream shop. Both were top tips. The next day we headed to Port Fairy and explored the historic town, we walked along the wharf, then the beach, and had a drink at the local pub where we met a conspiracy theo...
January 18. A fair bit of relaxing beach walking today, First at Bridport then at Beechford. We toured back to camp via Low Head. An Old bloke approached us at the lighthouse and he was going to give us some info whether we liked it or not. Apparently, the Queenslander was built by accident when there was a mix-up with the plans, he also showed us a pair of Penguins in their burrow. Bridport Beach Bridport Beach Low Head Lighthouse Low Head Queenslander January 19. We realised we've got two months in Tassie, not two weeks so it's time to slow down. Today we moved from Scottsdale to Bracknell. Scottsdale was a good location except for the logging trucks that start before sunrise and finish after sunset. The campground we were in was right next to the Tasman Hwy. Toni...
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