September 14, 2022 Intense rain during the night, one cabin had a leak. Several stops today, plus we passed through the famous Fonseranes 9 Locks, and tonight we moored alongside the canal several kilometers east of Portiragnes.

Very early morning reflection. Note the reflection of the soft drink cooler in the glass.

Is this the famous baker’s dozen coming out of the oven?

And a typical morning reflection photo.

As we were cruising down the canal, the people aboard another boat started screaming for us to stop. It turned out there was a dog in the canal, but not from their boat. Once rescued, and wrapped in towels aboard our boat it was decided the best thing to do was leave it with the next lockkeeper as there was a phone number on its collar.

Some distance down the canal we saw a man walking with an empty dog leash in his hand. It turned out to be the overjoyed dog owner..

It is not a traffic jam, it is a boat jam before the Fonseranes 9 Locks.

The wait to enter the locks was 3 1/3 hours.

Lock after lock after lock.

Filling one of the locks.

The crowds gather to watch the boats go through the locks

We walked all the way down with the ropes.

13 years ago we passed through this same set of locks, though then we were going up instead of down, in a driving rainstorm. This photo is from that trip.

The beauty of the locks.

A failed attempt to bypass the locks.

Walking to the large aqueduct across the l’Orb river .

Beautiful aqueduct, beautiful woman.

View after walking across the aqueduct.

Only by descending the stairs to the rive aver walking some distance is the true majesty of the aqueduct revealed.

Preparing to cruise across.

Not very wide.

Afterwards we went through some very deep locks.

The gates giver a sense of how deep this lock was.

Looking back into the lock.

While on the aqueduct we had passed this graffiti covered building.

The opposite of graffiti.

My guess is this bridge was originally constructed in 1708, then modified in 1768, hence the oversized 6.

Lift bridge, only one we passed under during our two weeks on the canal.

Love how they plant flowers seemingly everywhere.

Beautifully restored boat.

What it might have looked like before being restored.

Another rust bucket of a boat.

A different type of house boat.

Sad to see.

Happy hour.

dinner fixed on board the boat, and thus ended the day.