First lit stove seen for a few weeks

Well, we can't stay here for ever, going to the Proms every night, so we moved on. First job was to wind as we were now facing the wrong direction after giving our guests a short there-and-back ride yesterday. I should have tried just where we were, immediately east of Bridge 3 as the canal looked just about wide enough for our 55' boat - and we would have had nothing to lose - but we back-tracked for a mile to wind just past the Sainsbury's at Kensal Town. The winding hole isn't signed, but at the spot indicated on Waterway Routes there was the vestige of an entrance to an old basin so I stuck the bow in there and powered round. There was plenty of room behind me.

While I was winding Jan popped in to the supermarket. Just before this point we passed Captain Smollett, whose crew must have been feeling a little chilly. We were plenty warm enough, thank you. Incidentally, the bright green duckweed hasn't come out at all well in my photos. I think the camera must be (counterintuitively) fooled into overexposing. I'll have to experiment with the controls …)

We were soon back to our mooring of the previous two nights and then Little Venice and on to the Regent's Canal through London Zoo. At the locks at Camden we went down the first three locks on our own, but then we paired up with another boat for the rest of the way to Limehouse Basin.

The building at 1 Canada Square [centre] is still the most instantly recognisable of the growing cluster of skyscrapers at Canary Wharf.

As we arrived at Limehouse Basin two other boats emerged from Limehouse Cut to take what appeared to be the last visitor moorings. There was, however, just enough room for our locking partner to squeeze in in front of Spey; we tied up alongside. Perfect.

And this is our view in the basin.

Walking past the tidal lock to the Thames I couldn't resist another Canary Wharf photo, especially as the sun was behind me.

Tomorrow we start up the Lee Navigation.