Winding our way through Kidderminster wasn’t as industrial as we had imagined, in fact various places are being redeveloped and are positively embracing the canal ie Franky & Benny’s & Debenhams! Shortly after we meet up with a walker who is a waterways enthusiast and informs us that the Severn is on code red which means they won’t let anyone on to it.
Once we arrive in the Stourport Basin we join a gaggle of boats filling up with water and sharing river stories. Useful bits of info picked up. Quite a few colourful characters with a variety of narrow boats. We stay here for a while and have lunch then go for a walk around Stourport. Strange place. Lots of beautiful Regency buildings but also a part of town that thinks it’s a seaside harbour and has a funfair & plenty of fish & chip shops. It was very warm walking around town so we treated ourselves to an ice cream.
On our return we visit the British Waterways office to ask about the state of the River. They seemed hopeful we may be able to get on it tomorrow. We think it’s unlikely but I guess they have seen it rise and fall before so know how it works. The BW guy offers us a mooring behind the office, so we check this out and decide it is slightly better than where we are so move Averina just around the corner.
It’s a lovely warm evening so we take a stroll around the basin & along the river and check out the locks we have to go through to enter the river. It’s still on red and we don’t think it’s fallen since this afternoon. Took some photos and we’re joined on one occasion by a Swan family who were after food. I managed to take a few photos before I was hissed at!
Pleasant spot in the basin, we’re moored opposite a row of “Gin Palaces” so quite amusing the mixture of boats here. Crusty old narrow boaters and flashy cruisers.
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