waterways Oxford Canal by Stephen7 June 201517 April 2020 Emerging from Isis Lock which has raised us from the Sheepwash Channel of the Thames onto the Oxford Canal, where we will spend most of our holiday Breakfast time with Sarah, Mary, Merry and someone hiding Me, watching my head Diane and Lucy at work Merry, Sarah and Diane Mary disposes of some recycling by a lock in Banbury – facilities for boaters to do so officially were very limited Me at the lock in Banbury Me, Jane and Merry Jane, Mary, Lucy and Merry Jane and Sarah trying to keep dry Water buffalo grazing near Napton-on-the-Hill Wigrams Turn, and it was time for us to turn, and return the way we’d come Napton-on-the-Hill Climbing the locks at Napton Diane works the paddle while Merry walks on to the next lock Our 2000th lock Some geocaching going on Me waiting for the lock to fill Roundham Lock Lock 44A takes us off the main line of the Oxford Canal, the Duke’s Cut taking us back to the Thames The Duke’s Cut The wide Thames Swinford Bridge above Eynsham Lock on the Thames. Sarah and Mary left us earlier in the week and are missing from the group photo.