Stonebridge Lock to Waltham Town 11 Lock - River Lee Frozen

What a day.....  Yet another chilly one....  The River Lee froze today!!!

Pete steered me through 3mm of solid frozen ice for miles and miles and miles.  Susan and Mazey decided to walk as the sheer noise of the ice cracking and popping on my hull rattled on their nerves.  Both still recovering from the traumas of yesterday!!!

Pushing through the Ice!!

No boats moving today either....  Pete and I thought it was exciting...  No scarring - not even my blacking was scratched.  Pete did say if the ice had been thicker we would not have travelled.

Water was also frozen in the water pipes and in other places the taps had been removed from water taps along the river by vandals.  Thankfully, when we reached Hazelmere Sanitary Station near Waltham Abbey the water tap was working.  I am now full of water which will last them till they get to Roydon Marina.  As we headed further to Waltham Town Lock there was evidence of lots of snow falling here yesterday.

Now moored above Waltham Town 11 Lock which is 0.5 mile walk into Waltham Abbey.  Susan and Mazey exhausted as walked the entire 6.5 miles together.....

Waltham Town Lock 11

Total 6.5 miles and 5 locks (some part automated)