{"id":443,"date":"2012-10-08T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/?p=443"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:03:35","slug":"10-odd-canal-holiday-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/10-odd-canal-holiday-happenings\/443","title":{"rendered":"10 Odd Canal Holiday Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/holiday-top-10.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday Top 10s\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" title=\"\"> My own oddest sight was when boating past the mills of Leigh on the Leeds Liverpool, we passed a waterlogged cushion with a large turtle sitting serenely on it, watching us through beady eyes! &#8211; P. H.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" title=\"\">Rescuing a calf that had strayed too close to the water near Napton. &#8211; D. R.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Going in to a lock on the Kennet and Avon, going up, to find the pound looking like a ditch in summer! yes, top paddles and bottom gates left open &#8211; N. I.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" title=\"\"> Chugging past a family swimming in the cut, from their boat, with &#8220;Mum&#8221; filming the joyous occasion &#8211; P. G.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/5.jpg\" alt=\"5\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-485 alignleft\" title=\"cow2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/cow2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\">Woken by a cow swimming next to the boat (actually in the boat channel) &#8211; D. K.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/6.jpg\" alt=\"6\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, W&amp;B canal winding the locks in a hail &amp; thunderstorm, fork lightening in the distance &#8211; A. G.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/7.jpg\" alt=\"7\" title=\"\"> We don&#8217;t have canal holidays, but we have seen a swan attacking a white fender on the side of a boat. My partner likes taking pictures of boats along the route, some have the most unusual names, and decorations on top.\u00a0F. R.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/8.jpg\" alt=\"8\" title=\"\"> Wedding photographer asking to pose the bride and groom against my boat. &#8211; M. M.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/9.jpg\" alt=\"9\" title=\"\"> A couple of years ago we were cruising Trent &amp; Mersey when just below Great Haywood a small aeroplane crashed on a railway line with several fatalities, bringing down cables etc, it was all cordoned off so we couldn&#8217;t move anywhere for several days then to top it off when they did open up the canal we were frozen in. &#8211; D. F. G.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/themes\/blankslate\/images\/10.jpg\" alt=\"10\" title=\"\"> In the 1970&#8217;s we got a loose bow fender (on a hire boat) jammed under the bottom gates of a lock on the Stourbridge flight while it was emptying. It raised the gate right out of its socket! &#8211; A. N.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Any more Canal Oddities? 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