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East from Sneyd Junction we continued to follow the Wyrley & Essington Canal until Pelsall Junction. A left turn took us onto the Cannock Extension Canal which runs straight from end to end. I can’t think of any others that are entirely straight, except the Wardle Canal and that’s less than 100 yards long so it hardly counts. You can look down under the line of bridges. There’s a picture of the end when we reached it. 
Near the end a new bridge is being built to replace an old one. The canal is open and the route through the worksite is carefully marked with cones, some hung from the old bridge on string. It’s just like going through a slalom course. Inevitably we met the only other boat of the day while we were moving and let them through first. Their helmsman shouted "you’re the electric narrow boat in Canal Boat Magazine aren’t you". So we’d been spotted just the day after publication at the furthest reaches of the BCN. 
Then along the Curly Wurly and the Anglesey Branch to Anglesey Basin, the most northerly point of the BCN. We moored up mid afternoon and walked up to see the Chasewater reservoir. Soon afterwards, having seen only one other moving boat all day, two turn up at once. We welcomed Rhapsody in Blue and Smudge and we’re all squeezed nicely into the visitor moorings designed for two boats. 
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