Yes we had a lot of rain last night and this morning so it was a slow start. Good thing we’ve got plenty of reading material.

The rain turned to drizzle, so we pushed off eager to get back to Cartbridge Marina before more arrived.

What a contrast to a couple of days ago, but the water meadows are always interesting to go thru, being the true river rather than a canalised section. There’s always abundant waterfowl here.

There was a National Trust employee at Newark Lock, who helped us, much appreciated by Hazel. Approaching Triggs the rain started, but the NT work boat Swallow appeared so we went through together. There is a lot of bank reinforcement being carried on, the Wey is obviously in good hands.

Approaching Cartbridge Basin from downstream we always pass an unloved Sea Otter on a home mooring. It’s gradually being surrounded by reeds, so sad to see a once lovely boat going downhill. Just as we enter the Marina the heavens open and we get soaked, we just needed another 5 minutes. To make matters worse there is no shoreline power, hopefully it will be fixed tomorrow or our fridge will run the house battery down.