River Little Ouse blocked by tree

[Chop!]

If Scholar Gypsy and Moomin Papa are wanting to follow us, the E.A. won't be sorting this until next week.

We just cruised up the Little Ouse, very shallow under the railway bridge, the a few hundred yards downstream from Brandon lock there is a tree down, we managed to slide over the branches close to the bank, so risking grounding.

Very shallow at Brandon lock 48 hour moorings, we had difficulty winding.

[MoominPapa]

Thanks Chop.

 

There are lots of trees down, but we've come across none completely blocking the river. The one which comes closest is on the "long way round" approach to Brampton Mill lock, but that's avoidable by taking the direct route through the sluice pool.

 

MP.

 

[tree monkey]

No photos of either the tree or the failure point, boaters are bloody useless 

[MoominPapa]

3 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

No photos of either the tree or the failure point, boaters are bloody useless 

Here's one of the willow in front of us now. Long zoom, so crap quality, sorry. It's freezing and blowing a gale out there, so I took it from the hatch.

[Stilllearning]

18 minutes ago, MoominPapa said:

Here's one of the willow in front of us now. Long zoom, so crap quality, sorry. It's freezing and blowing a gale out there, so I took it from the hatch.

Salix fragilis living up to its name?

[tree monkey]

41 minutes ago, MoominPapa said:

Here's one of the willow in front of us now. Long zoom, so crap quality, sorry. It's freezing and blowing a gale out there, so I took it from the hatch.

Yeah, I might not moor under that, good photo though 

[tree monkey]

1 hour ago, Stilllearning said:

Salix fragilis living up to its name?

To be fair to the tree it looks like a combination of an included branch union and some sort of brown rot,  obviously that was a guess based on a photo  

[MoominPapa]

1 hour ago, tree monkey said:

To be fair to the tree it looks like a combination of an included branch union and some sort of brown rot,  obviously that was a guess based on a photo  

It was a bit windy last Saturday. Waves at Brownshill Staunch.