Selby Canal...

I’m ashamed to admit that, until today, I didn’t even know that Selby had a canal. I took some pix at the canal basin, where, via a lock, the waterway connects with the River Ouse. There are moorings for narrowboats, and the seemingly obligatory waterside apartments. What I hadn’t expected was a covering of duckweed so thick, I suspected it might bear my weight. This strange, purpose-built craft was hoovering up the duckweed and depositing it in the lock. When the lock was full, the duckweed was sluiced into the river…