Day 28 - Bugsworth Basin

Tuesday 30th June

Train trip to Buxton



Our neighbour

A beautiful sunny morning with the forecast suggesting highs of 24 degrees even here in the North. Had my early morning cup of tea outside surrounded by ducks, geese, moorhens and a heron surveying us all from its perch in a tree.

Got a history leaflet of the basin and of its restoration. All fascinating and difficult to imagine.















Buxton opera house

Decided to walk to Whaley Bridge and take the train through more magnificent scenery to Buxton. Buxton looked very different today from the last time we saw it in the rain a few years ago when we were walking the Gritsone Way. Gardens were beautiful.











Buxton water



Our mooring in Bugsworth basin

Back in Whaley bridge we went to Tesco and back to boat. It was breezy and crossing the footbridge to our arm of the basin Paul lost his beloved hat - it blew off into the canal and rather than flot so we could retrieve it, it sank!









The moon from our mooring

Spent the afternoon pottering at the boat - Paul cleaning brass, me cleaning inside and listening to Wimbledon on the radio as we had no TV signal.

Outside until almost 11pm - a beautiful day.