Walks with Ida around Wilstone Reservior.

Having a dog again is great and also is helping us get abit more exercise! Ida goes at a fair old lick so it's no saunter, Ralph & Leo being Spaniels were more interested in all the sniffs but Ida is more interested in running and covering ground!
Went over to the Wilstone Reservoirs near Marsworth today. Had Ida on a lead around the reservoir as I wasn't sure what she'd think of the water & didn't really want her jumping in. She showed very little interest in it, and as she appears to almost tiptoe round puddles I don't think she'd have gone in anyway!
I haven't done this walk for a least two years so it was interesting to see how the restoration of  the Wendover arm of the Grand Union Canal was getting on. Built in 1797/8 as a branch off of the main Grand Union Canal, it didn't last all that long  finally closing in 1904 a restoration society was formed in 1989 to restore the arm to its former glory. This will take years and years, I can see progress since I last walked part of it, there's a couple of footbridges and part of the canal now has brickwork in situ. Rather ominously the seats placed  at intervals along the stretch seem to be in memory of people who I presume were volunteers........not exactly the Burma Railway but it makes you think.
Anyway we had a grand walk, probably a couple of miles made quite difficult in places as it was very muddy & slippery. Will walk there again in the better weather!

Walk along the reservoir.

Canada Geese I think.

Wendover arm, very muddy but no water yet.

Brickwork going in but being navigable is a long way off.