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… and we saw a huge number of swans all happily settled on the banks of the river. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than about four or five together at any one time, so this was a first for me.
As we approached the bridge at Reedham, we suddenly realised that it was swinging open. What on earth was coming the other way? We couldn’t see anything, and we checked behind us. There was nothing behind us, certainly nothing that would warrant having the bridge opened. Maybe it was just opening up for us? As we got closer, we could see the message that the bridge would be open until 4:00pm, and it was now 3:25pm, so I guess it’s just one of those things it does, but it was neat that we were the first boat to go through it once it had opened!
Then we were back out into the open water, with no-one around us…
… but only for a little while, as we were soon overtaken…
Soon we were approaching the Reedham ferry again, although it wasn’t operating, as there was no-one waiting. What everyone seemed to do was to park up on one side or the other, then go as a foot passenger, which I know is a lot cheaper.
We then passed by this magnificent old tug boat…
That meant we were back at the Loddon turnoff where we’d joined the main river this morning, and now we were on our way back towards Brundall, where we’d started out yesterday.
The wind was still pretty stiff, which made for some pretty good sailing weather, judging by these guys…
Cool bridge, I was expecting it to go up. Neat!
Wow, it is quite windy. Can't really tell otherwise until I saw that sailboat. Beautiful sunshine at least!
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It wasn’t long before we were approaching Cantley, which you can see a mile (or few off, thanks to the massive British Sugar factory there. I loved the way Mark said “they made no attempt to disguise it”. I did ask him how he’d disguise it, given its huge size, and he suggested making it look like windmills.
I decided to get a bit arty with some close-up shots of the water…
Finally we had another wildlife spotting, and I do love these birds:
We had some beautiful scenery in the late afternoon light…
Suddenly we were into a stretch of the river with green fields alongside, and we knew this was where we’d seen my boys yesterday, but no such luck today sadly.
Now we knew that water skiing is permitted on stretches along the river, but we hadn’t actually seen any. Well, suddenly within a couple of minutes of each other, we saw two – and my goodness, the wake they throw up was quite something, even for our boat!
We carried on along, losing the light quicker than we’d expected, given that it wasn’t even 5:00pm. We were heading for Rockland Broad, close to where we’d started out from yesterday, but we both started to worry that perhaps it would be a bit late when we got there, and there could be no mooring.
Anyway, before we could worry too much about that, we found some of my bovine buddies alongside the river. Now whether they were the same ones from yesterday, I’m not 100% sure. The brown cow was definitely a calf, and I’m sure the one I saw yesterday was full size… anyway, what did I care? I had cows to admire!
Mark pointed out that there was a pub a little bit further up the river, and it looked like it had mooring available, plus there was no-one nearby to moan about us having our engines on to heat the boat so we figured we’d moor up there. Now this time, we managed it, just the two of us, which I was really pleased with. Maybe we’re getting better at this boating lark, although I don’t want to tempt fate and speak too soon!
Nice job mooring up all on your own! Have you put in a bid on your own boat yet? Thought of names? Eeyore's Lament, perhaps? CowWatcher? Bovine Boating?
Nice job mooring up all on your own! Have you put in a bid on your own boat yet? Thought of names? Eeyore's Lament, perhaps? CowWatcher? Bovine Boating?
Not yet, but I love the ideas for the names - all so cool and so creative!
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We couldn’t see anything, and we checked behind us. There was nothing behind us, certainly nothing that would warrant having the bridge opened. Maybe it was just opening up for us? As we got closer, we could see the message that the bridge would be open until 4:00pm, and it was now 3:25pm, so I guess it’s just one of those things it does, but it was neat that we were the first boat to go through it once it had opened! 
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