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| Yacht on the Jentjemeer |
10º C A lovely sunny morning,
high white clouds – very cloudy by lunchtime, but still warm and pleasant
without much wind. Set off at 8 a.m. and reversed to the lake before winding
and following Rosy across Jentje Meer heading north. The lake was smooth like
glass. Took a photo of a yacht reflected in the mirror surface. Next thing the
yacht was heading towards us on a collision course – nothing else moving and he
had to aim for us! It steered away as it came within a few feet. The young
couple on board were grinning.
The first cruiser on the move passed us in the
next lake as we headed for Goringarijpster Poelen, only 2 – 2.5m deep. Still
following Rosy, we went under Heerenzijld liftbridge as we had enough headroom
with our masts off (so there was no need to pay 1,20€ to have the thing lifted)
and into Terkaplester Poelen, then the Wijd Geeuw and left into Akkrumerak.
Right on Het Deel (pooh! someone had been to the meestbank and was muck
spreading, what a pong!) the canal was 3m deep - deeper than the lakes. Turned
left at 10.20 a.m. on to the Buitenringvaart, under the narrow fixed span of a railway
liftbridge as the traffic on Het Deel was starting to build up with cruisers
passing in both directions (but none followed us!). Took photos of the railway
bridge to send to Glyn as we started along the wide deep canal. We put our new
CD player out on the stern slide and played some CDs as we went along. Turned
left into Pompsloot - straight ahead the canal lead into
Herenveen town. We
arrived at a DIY press button liftbridge, Hooibrug, as a cruiser arrived at the
far side - they pressed the button on their side first and the bridge lifted.
The cruiser came through and we got a green light (Bill had pressed the button
on our side) and we followed right behind Rosy so that the bridge sensors
wouldn’t close it again right behind Bill and we’d have to stop and press the
button again. Mike put our big blue sunshade up for the first time in weeks.
Took photos as we went past a peat extraction site and a loading place (which
looked derelict) at KP 6. There were lots of boats moored in ones and twos or
threes along the next long straight section overlooking the peat bog. Bill paid
2€ at Poolsbrug (for us too as
Bill had no change other than 2€ piece). The
chatty bridge keeper rattled on to us in Fries as we went through his bridge,
we didn’t understand a word! The canal
swung sharp left beyond his bridge. Two cruisers were coming towards us through
Warrebrug, a large (free) liftbridge on a busy road operated by a lady keeper.
It was eight minutes before midday. She lowered the bridge again to let the
road traffic go and then opened it again for us. I made lunch and we ate it as
we went along. Paused for ten minutes at the first liftbridge on
the Turf Route
near Tijnje for the keeper’s lunchbreak to finish. At 1.25 p.m. we stopped at a
rural mooring by KP 18 just before the A7 motorway. The grassy bank had stumps
to tie to and a wooden edge just long enough for us two, with a bit left over
for a small yacht or cruiser (none turned up to claim it). A barbed wire fence
was there to keep cows out - there were none around anyway (but we could see evidence
that the fence hadn’t kept them
out!) and there was a quiet little road about 50m away. Mike
decided the car
would be OK at
Jentje Meer and left it there.
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| Windmill on the Buitenringvaart |
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| Railway liftbridge Monnikerak jnc with Het Deel |
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| Railway engine at Monnikerak liftbridge |
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| DIY liftbridge Hooibrug |
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| De Deelen former loading site for peat extraction |
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| De Deeren former peat extraction site |
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| Rosy at Warrebrug |
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| Turfroute sign board with opening times and charges in 2005 |
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