The first five minutes paddling were hard work until aching muscles started working and until Meara woke up. We left Tracy and Ethan feeding the ducks and headed out, racing a six year old boy amused at the rarity of a canoe on the canal. Once we had left Kilcock, this stretch of canal is amazingly featureless until Enfield. Whole open stretches for miles with no locks and no sign of any roads or even houses. When the highlight of the day is splashing a cow and laughing because Meara fell in the canal you realise not alot has happened!
Lots more fish including plenty of pike and perch, but the water much clearer than closer to Dublin.
We were both tired in the afternoon. Meara had a lie down......
We saw our first moving boat today, and went on our first little viaduct as the canal goes over a river. We were going so well we decided to press on an extra 4 km from the planned stop off and finished at the lovely canal side pub at Hill of Down. Google maps had failed Tracy and she had got lost so we went in the pub for a guiness and coke/ bag of crisps. Lovely.
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