A gentle start to the morning saw us entering the River Wey at 10am. We were the only boat thru yesterday, and the lockie reckoned we’d be the only ones today. No wonder he wanted to chat for a while.

Then it was onto Town Lock at Weybridge, where we moored up and strolled into town. It’s changed a lot in 40+ years…

There must have been 20+ coffee shops, as well as restaurants, only the library looking the same. The old antique shop at the bottom of town finally closed down, the only shop I remember as a child. At £18 for 2 coffees and cake I don’t think I’ll be stopping again, Godalming was much more attractive and welcoming.

Then it was onto Coxes Lock, looking lovely in the sun and the Qantas Dreamliner overhead again. Our last lock for the season was New Haw, and it made us pay……Hazel really struggled to close 1 gate, right on the limit for her, and being a deep lock and going upstream it was difficult for me to climb out and help. I also removed a couple of cubic metres of floating pennywort before we could get out. We were both tired leaving that lock, you wouldn’t want many of those in a day ! However the downs were replaced with ups as a Kingfisher flew in front of the boat as we got near Pyrford, he even caught a fish right in front of us.

As a celebration we moored up in front of the Anchor pub for lunch, before topping up the diesel, and into the Marina on our winter ropes. Engine stop and finish. 😢