Today we planned to enter new territory as we had booked to go down the Frankton locks onto the Montgomery Canal.
This canal is only navigable for a few miles and in fact there has been a breach so at the moment you can only go as far as Queen's Head - approx. 4 miles. Only 12 boats are allowed down and 12 up each day. Because of the breach there are very few around. In fact there are only 7 boats including ourselves here at the moment. We are not sure where more boats could moor. Most of the canal provides insufficient room for boats to pass each other and at Queen's Head there is only room for 3 to moor. It seems very isolated.
After mooring we took a walk down to see the breach and the drained locks. They hope to open again during next week although to us it seemed that a lot of work is required before that point is reached. One interesting sign is displayed. Couldn't they have just said 'Empty canal'
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