After a quiet night in Stokesby, we failed to find the flower festival and so had morning drinks and cakes at the village store and then continued upstream, and along Upton Dyke to the staithe where we refilled with water and walked to the village centre. The pub being poor, some more drinks and snacks from the village store eating them on a memorial seat by the duck pond before setting off upstream past Thurne Mouth and up to Potter Heigham where we enjoyed a BBQ but caught no fish before I took a walk to Repps and back.
We had a good quiet night at Stokesby and we carried a while, getting ready this morning expecting to find a flower festival in the church. We walked up there together but found nothing, as the parishes are grouped together, and the festival is Filby this year! We still had the morning drinks and cakes at the Riverside Stores and let the girls play on the riverside playthings. I undertook one or two repairs to the boat and then we eventually set off further upstream. We cruised along Upton Dyke and moored at the Staithe, filling up with water before walking to the village centre.
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The pub, a poor place, was closed at lunchtime for some unknown reason and so we waited for the village shop to reopen and then bought some drinks and snacks. We ate them round the corner while sitting on some memorial benches by the duck pond. The water was almost white to get the ducks were plentiful. I caught a young duckling Fidelity/before its mother fain to attack me to retrieve it! After we returned to the boat, we cruised further upstream passed to Thurne mouth and we were very pleased to see a host of sailing cruises making good headway in the stiff breeze. It was an ideal day, sunny and breezy for them. We pulled up alongside Potter Heigham bridge and chatted to the bridge pilot, who told us that the tides were high this week and that we should returned before 1pm next Wednesday when they will be more headroom. We moored up in Potter Heigham and had a nice barbecue of sausage and beef burger on a fine and sunny evening. Later I tried fishing, with no success, and then went for a long circular walk along the staithe inland to Repps and back to Potter Heigham.