From the 30th of May to the 6th I was on a canal boat. I went with Mum, Dad, Gabby, Amelia, Nicola, Kevan, Sophie, Helena and Huw. Nanny and Grandpa also came but they were on a separate boat. The boats names are 'Rowdyke' and 'Duke' I was on 'Rowdyke'.
Canal boats were originally used for moving materials such as coal, now they are used as houseboats and for holidays for people to enjoy the canals and scenery.
As each boat has a name. Lots of them are names of people. Here are some of the names!
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| Patricia |
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| Bella |
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| Helena |
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| Amelia |
We went from Rugby to Banbury, on the Oxford Canal. That route is about 78 miles long which is 126 kilometres.
By the way you are probably thinking that a canal boat would do that in much less than a week because you would have thought that it goes a little faster than 4 miles an hour (6.4 kilometres an hour)!!!
The longest time I steered for in one go was an hour and a half.
We stopped at a few places; Aynho, Banbury, Fenny Compton, Cropredy and Napton. My favourite was Aynho.
This is the boat plan of Rowdyke:
When you go up or down a hill on the boat you have to go through locks.If you are going up-hill you go into the lock and then fill it by winding the cranks. Once the lock is full you open the doors and drive through.
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The gates of the lock.
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| The two levels of the Canal. |
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The crank that you wind either to let the water in or out of the lock.
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There was loads of animals around the canals. The animals, I saw were:
rabbits, brown hare, red squirrel, mallard and shovelers with ducklings, moorhen, mute swans with signets, hedgehog, red deer, pigeons, horses, ponies, sheep, pigs, chickens with chicks, geese, dogs.
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| Pony and it's foal |
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| Ducklings with their Mother |
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| Swans and their signets |
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| Piglets |
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| Duckling that is only one day old |
Some other photos I took on the boat
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| There were lots of different birds along the canals. |
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| A cottage in Aynho |
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Luckily this boat wasn't ours!!
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The map below shows where I have been so far:
Next week we will be going to see the sights of London and also to visit friends.
5 comments:
Dear bella
It sounds like you had a good time. How can you go up hill and down hill on water??
Love the photos!
Love from Zahraa xoxo
Hi Bella, what a great way to see parts of England. Not sure how to pronounce some of the places you visited. Love the names of the boats, especially Bella and Amelia; what about Gabby? was there a FREDA? Love the photos as usual,look forward to more, Love Freda,Zaidan and Yassie
Wow Bella the Canal trip looked awesome. That's on my list for next time. From what I see on the tv the weather isn't being too nice for you, I hope you are finding some sunshine. It must be great to catch up with your grandparents, cousins and Auntie and Uncle in their home land. Enjoy your sightseeing around England and Wales. Can't wait to see more pics. Say hi to everyone from me.
Love Michelle
ps bumped in to your family here on the weekend at the supermarket.
Hi again Bella. Looks like you are going to like 5 new places each day. Your doing alot of traveling around and seeing so much different things by the looks of your photos. Looks like a blast! The disco is coming up and we are all pretty excited, I wish you could come to.
I had a fantastic long weekend. I had 3 sleepovers(if you count our cousin Olivia who comes to baby sit). 2 of them were with Ally and Harry. We went to the Chelsea park with them and slid down the skate park ramps, that were pretty big,on our bums. The only bad part was that our pants went orange from the ramps, and I got a hole right in the back of my pants. lol. I had to put on new tracksuits before my cousins from England came in the afternoon.
Anyway. Gotta go on with work.
Bye bye!!
-Erin
Hi again Bella!
I LOVE the Animal photos!!
Did you take that video? Can you actually post comments on this? If you can please post one, if you cant then I will obviously know that you cant post comments.
Cool
:)
-Erin
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