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| A chien viverine also called a racoon dog - was this what he saw? Wikimedia photo by Jukka A Lang |
3.6°
C Sunny and cold. Clouded over in the afternoon and the wind picked up. It was
only 3.8° C when Mike set off back down the Spree at 8 a.m. I had difficulty
getting out of bed as my back was still bad and I’d had a rough night waking up
a dozen times or more. I decided discretion was the better part and stayed
indoors again. Took Mike some tea out as we were passing the old lock. We
arrived above Beeskow lock at 11.45. The lock filled and I made a sandwich as
we waited for the lock to empty. We dropped down the lock side by side with Rosy
and followed behind all the way back to Wergensee, where we tied up exactly
where we’d been the previous morning. It was 2.15 p.m. It took 6.8 hours to go
upstream and 5.7 hours coming back with the flow - an hour faster. That was surprising
as the flow didn’t seem to be very much. Mike said he’d seen a herd of deer and
later a large animal like a fox but the wrong colour. We looked in my French
book of European animals and the only thing like it for size was a chien viverine
(whatever that is!), but Mike said it wasn’t like that. He said it looked a bit
like a fox with a bushy tail but greyish in colour and it had shorter legs. It
remains a mystery. Peter sent an SMS to ask if we were on air just as we were
about to eat. Sent one back to say OK we’d play HF a bit later. He ‘phoned to
find out what was happening as Mike was erecting the pole and wire on the roof.
I held the spotlight for him by the side doors. It was very dark. They had a
very reasonable contact on 40m until conditions dropped. Peter ‘phoned us to
say he’d lost Mike on HF in the noise. Put the central heating on overnight.
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