...and they're off again....

Under the railway....

Camden High Street

in Islington Tunnel

Residential moorings at Little Venice

Left delightful mooring in Little venice and went through a short tunnel to Camden Lock - now a huge international casbah. I remember it as a trendy little Sunday market ! Passed through London Zoo, eyed by a few mean looking vultures in the top of the Snowdon Aviary.
A further tunnel - a few hundred metres long, leads into Islington. London is a strange place - you can slip from the smartest multi-million pound villas, into areas where you would rather not linger, in five minutes.

The weather went from a blazing hot lunchtime in Camden Lock, where Moondaisy was part of the cabaret for thousands of tourists, to a hail storm, with the biggest hail stones we had ever seen. Not golf ball size, but marble size - which hurt when they hit . We sheltered under a bridge, but moved on when a few dubious characters materialised from the darker regions. Very few boats move through the City, but there are lots moored - presumably as house boats. Glimpses up into the streets above give little clue as to where you are.
We watched a real life drama played out as two adult coots fought to save their chicks from a marauding gull - the gull made high level and low-level attacks but the coots played a strong defensive game, screeching and flapping: all ended well, when the gull abandoned its attempts.

Camden Lock

Basking Terrapin - another canal "first "!

Camden Market Stall