After a cool, but noisy night (due to a close road and flight path) we were ready to push off. Its another sunny day….

Approaching Windsor there are a lot of No Mooring signs, His Majesty wants no riff raff, and the size of River Traffic is large as well.

Finally Windsor castle came into sight, along with numerous planes on final approach into Heathrow. Indeed the sky is full of contrails and the constant whine of jet engines spooling up and down.

Our first lock was manned, but from then on they have been self service, and a bit of a bun fight as we all squeeze in. I’ve never seen the river so busy, and it’s not even the weekend yet ….We always wear our life jackets, this 14 foot deep lock empties and fills in a couple of minutes, that’s a huge amount of water moving around.

As we had a good convoy going we stayed on till thru Boulters Lock, then pulled over on the inside passage of Sloe Grove Island. This is a lovely part of the river, below Cliveden House. At the moment we are by ourselves, apart from a duck family. Lovely 😀 Tomorrow we will use the services at Cookham, shop in Marlow and hope to moor at Henley