Andy Parry, Andrew Witowski, and Tom Bloor

May 30, 2007

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Me, Tom, Andy, and Andrew – from left to right.

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Things started out innocently enough…

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but soon we were scanning the buildings,

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looking for a way in.

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Dead end.

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Stuck shut.

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This one too.

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What now?

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Around the bend, we were moving quickly.So I decided to head out of the Icknield Port.

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There is an island in the canal in the direction of Wolverhampton.

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Roger, one of my first pasengers, told me that it used to be a kind of toll house – for entering Birmingham by canal.

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Now it is a small abandoned island.

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We head back into the port.

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I wish you could take a picture of the sound – said Andrew.

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A tour boat passed by.

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And when we stopped and got out – that is when I dropped the camera into the water and lost everything from the trip before.

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