Each day we have a schedule worked out long in advance on the web based canal planner. Given a journey details it gives us a daily schedule of equal duration so that we know whether a gien plan is workable. So each day we have a target location for overnight mooring. Lately however, moorings that we anticipate are not there or like today, already taken or perhaps discretion changes our mind. No option then but to go on. The cruise was pretty uneventful, through Hurley and Temple Locks, on to Marlow and then the long reach to Cookham. Just before the lock cut a large barge turned ahead of us to lead down the lock cut. It turned out to be the Magan Carta Hotel boat, one of the largest I have seen on the river. Fortunately it stopped before the lock to await a passenger, so we were in the end not delayed, not that it would have mattered. Boulters lock was pretty full with three narrowboats and a couple of cruisers and we were then turned away at Bray, being a smaller lock. Our intended mooring was full and the fall back position had a small party setting up a picnic. Alfie would have created mayhem for sure, so we moved on to Baths Island in Windsor. This is also a nice place to sit out and does not have the stream of tourists walking past the boat as on the main bank. A hot afternoon.
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