More canals

Some new swans

and new Canada geese.

We might have seen some horses here, where a farmer had carved a point-to-point course through his crop. But we didn't.

We did see a gorilla, though, but he was just hanging about.

On one morning, we went under the M40 motorway, near Watling Street (the old Roman road) and beside the mainline railway at the same time. The trains were too fast for me to photograph properly. Most of the time, civilization was just a distant murmur ..........

.... as we sailed through places like this.

Through it all, the Eureka flag flew proudly, and many of the other boat people wanted to know what it was.