Oxford Canal:Fenny Compton (Tuesday)

Sorry, bit late in posting due to nothing in particular.   Well I set off early this morning expecting a clear run at least to Cropredy but not a chance.  Everybody was up.  I followed one as far as Cropredy, but there were opposited directions which broke things up in a nice way.  So actually reached Claydon top by 12:55 and stopped for lunch.  I had made a beef casserole using the slow cooker yesterday, warmed this up with some new vegetables.  Then continued on to Fenny.  There is no doublt that the water at the south end of the "tunnel" is very shallow.  First it looks like boating through thin mud and the displaced water moved to the stern very rapidly and meeting a following mini tsunami.  Further when lining up to have some visibilty down the narrows the boat started to list on the bottom mud.   I rather suspect that the whole length from here to the feeder is all very shallow.   Anyway, arriving at Fenney in good time allowed me to get some diesel to calm my fears of running out.  Further I was able to visit LeeSan for some more de-scaler solution.  It's very expensive at around £20/litre, but certainly does the job keeping the pipes clear.  Chewiing the cud with other boaters the thought was that the heavy canal traffic was the result of the recent Napton stoppage.