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| Moored at KP40 Hoge Vaart |
Grey skies most of the day, light
but cold breeze, no rain. Set off at 10.15 a.m. We stopped at Biddinghuizen to
get some water. As we tied up the commercial we’d seen the day before, called
Norma, went past, now loaded, heading back towards Almere. Biddinghuizen had
completely changed, with new houses and a new waterfront - no mooring was
allowed in front of the new houses on the posh new paved quay
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| Commercial called Norma passing at Biddinghuizen |
but further along
there was an extended wooden staging with posts to tie to and bins, chemical
toilet disposal and a water tap. We all cried hooray, we can fill up. But too
soon as we discovered a new type of tap that wouldn’t allow us to connect a
hosepipe because of the pressure which just blew water back through the
fitting. Mike and Oll tried all sorts of ideas but the only thing possible was
to get water in containers and fill the tank with them. We were down to less
than 100 litres so we had to do some topping up, the Snail’s tank was half full
so they didn’t need to bother.
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| Below the lock at Ketelhaven |
They set off again and we carried on filling 5
litre containers until we had 300 litres in the tank, which would see us
through the next few days until we found another tap. Set off again at 12.25
p.m. Just after we set off we could see the amusement rides at Flevoland’s
Walibi park off to the right across the field. We tied up at 2.45 pm in
Ketelhaven on the long wooden staging behind the Snail. Anne and Olly had been
out looking for the Ship Museum by the lock. Alas, it had been moved to
Lelystadt.
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