Bird Hide,Narrowboats and Boat for Sale

This week it was deemed too cold to walk the dogs at ttp://www.appledown.co.uk/, so I decided to have a short walk at Marsworth to see if anything was moving in this cold weather.Walking along the towpath towards the Aylesbury Arm I saw a for sale notice on a cruiser stern narrowboat.

 

and this is the NB Brianthea for sale.

 

 

I walked up the Aylesbury arm and the sun was shining for a change which makes me want to take pictures,so I took another one of the lock keepers cottage at Lock 4, Black Jacks lock which is a different view to which I took in the rain earlier on last year.

 

 

Just a bit further on I took this of a narrowboat with the cottage in the distance.

 

 

Now I have to watch the time so I turn around and decide to have a look at the bird hide on the reservoir and on the way saw NB May moored in a popular point next to the reservoir.

 

 

This is the hide at Star Tops reservoir..

 

 

and inside is a plaque explaining those responsible for installing and looking after it.

 

 

Here are details of those named on the plaque..

http://tringanglers.org.uk/1home.php

http://www.tringreservoirs.org.uk/

http://www.chilternsaonb.org/conservation-board.html

http://www.therothschildfoundation.com/

 

and lastly the new

 

http://canalrivertrust.org.uk/

 

a new organisation which replaces the old British Waterways.

Have a read of these organisations as without them our enjoyment of the waterways would be greatly diminished.

Then I had to rush to get the weeks shopping done before my time out was up.

 

Next week weather permitting it’s back to walking the dogs.