I wish more vloggers would follow your lead and clean up trash that they see. You both are such good examples of caring for the environment and I for one appreciate your efforts. This was a beautiful and peaceful trip. I wish you well on your journey.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@thoughtsonfitness3249

Жыл бұрын

We do!

A BIG applause for trying to keep our planet clean. Well done!!!

KZread VOTE; Fran & Rich are the Loveliest People on the Planet. Hit like for ‘Yes’ or Hit like for ‘Yes’ ❤️

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

Lovely to see your film of the otters. My husband and I were sleeping in the front cabin of our cruiser on the river nene. My husband woke me up around 4 am and told me to look out of the front window. I was very sleepy and at first didn’t realise what I was looking at then I realised it was an otter. Later that morning we saw it playing in the water and running on the far bank. We were thrilled.

@FloatingOurBoat

2 ай бұрын

Isn't it wonderful. Such a privilidge to see them playing

Well done, Explorers of the English Amazon ! So much work but such great memories just for you ! This is why I follow you from Texas USA .

@eamo106

Жыл бұрын

Unlike Peter Kay, Keep going !

So lovely to see the otters. ❤

Fran & Rich, we enjoy your adventures. Thank you

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

The bright green floating on the water looks very much like our Dallas, Texas, algae. It proliferates in heat and sunshine. A word of warning, where it coats things like rocks and ladders, it is as slippery as ice.

Wonderful vlog and great photography around the home of my Granddads x3 who, along with his family, who farmed around South Kyme. Thanks you for the great tour around a little known area❤️

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Wow, It is a lovely area

I've watched all your vlogs and have enjoyed everyone.I live in south texas I'm a retired nurse in not the greatest health.Just wanted to tell you that you're living my dream.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Kala, sorry to hear you are not in great health but hope you find escape on our videos

A lovely, therapeutic video for us landlubbers to partake in your adventures! (And dream of imitating them someday!) Thanks as always for sharing.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Absolutely gorgeous countryside as well as the nature reserve, so peaceful and relaxing. Great choice of music, and I love that you don't play it when showing things like the ruins and church interiors, allowing us to take it in without distraction. Beautiful vlog, on so many levels. Thank you, and looking forward to the next one. 💜

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. Sometimes the natural sounds fit in so much better

Thanks for taking us on this beautiful adventure and well done for cleaning up that lovely mooring, that would've been the gig to be at when I was a young lad with all the top names there. It's great to see that you two and the doggies are doing well and enjoying yourselves. Take care and all the best. Stevie

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Apparently the weather was terrible and it was washed out, but what a great line up

Picking up after grown ups. Sad. Always a great ear for music on your videos !!!

So, so lovely. Thank you.

oh wow how exciting to see the otters

Just beautiful❤ I'm going to watch it again👍🏼 the shot of the little church with the big blue sky behind it could be a painting.

Well, it may have been green and weedy on the canals, but Fran you looked beautiful in your yellow blouse!

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Lovely and the bonus is that y'all popped up after Mr. Cruising the Cut latest video. Yup nice way to have a snack and a cup of coffee.

Great cruise although sone issues with low water and that you had to go back. Love the Otters and the Swans and babies. Keith.

Positively breathtaking! I think otters are my spirit animal. Weeds: bad for propellers, good for Earth, and green really is beautiful. Well done, you two.

wow, half of this canal looks like mushy peas. thank you for your wonderful video!

I went to the Bardney Festival when I was 18. Some great bands played. Very basic compared to the festivals of today. Hitch hiked back to Liverpool. Those were the days. Not a care in the world. Beautiful church and memorial to the local men who lost there lives in the war.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

I would have loved to have seen Rory Gallagher and Genesis et al. Rich

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Lovely memories of the festival. Lets do it again

@davidcrossland9096

Жыл бұрын

@@FloatingOurBoat I saw Rory on four occasions when he played the old Liverpool stadium, no longer there. Check shirt, jeans and a beat up old Strat. He played for so long they had to drag him off the stage. Forget the last bus home, you were walking 🙂 Only saw Genesis once at Wembley arena. Fantastic gig. Safe travels to you both. We are on the canals for three weeks in September, hopefully the levels improve. PS I still have the festival programme.

Yea for the cleanup crew & love old cemeteries too. Wow, the grain heads look amazingly full. It flashed by but it looked like Oats. Thanks for yet another amazing video.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

I think it may have been wheat but we have been surrounded by so many crop.

Hi Fran and Rich. That duck weed was so thick it must have been difficult to know if the navigation was clear. Great you got to see otters. Lovely sunset. Take care. Nick

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

It was thick, we just had to creep along in tickover and hope for the best

Yahoo! We finally caught up to the most recent video! We found you a couple of months ago and went back to the beginning! Thanks for sharing your lives with us! We are loyal viewers now! 🥰

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. That is an amazing achievement to catch up so quickly

@JulieBeyerRDN

Жыл бұрын

@@FloatingOurBoat we worked at it! 😂😂😂

Thank you both for the great video. I always get so relaxed viewing it. Have a nice evening......

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you too

Pea soup springs to mind 😊

One of your very best vlogs! Thank you.

This was such a lovely vlog, filming was so beautiful, big skies, otters and the scenery was so restful. Its such a wonderful lifestyle you are enjoying, Love these vlogs they make me feel so relaxed, feel like I m going along with you 😊

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Tracey

Fran, Im in love with that yellow linen top you are wearing!

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Prayers for the passing of Queen Elizabeth today

... a Joe Cocker fan (may he rest in peace) as well!...

That was different, but interesting!! Thank you!!

Thank you.

Looks like scenes from “The African Queen”. Also nice clean up

Taylor's Lock for sure! I know some Taylors. I'll ask them next time I see them 😆🤣

What a stunning view after a your difficulties with the duckweed. Way too much fertilizer on the land to get the yield. But... nature reserve. 😊

@FloatingOurBoat

7 ай бұрын

So true!

Love your vlogs and have been with you from the start. I was at that festival over 50 years ago!!!! Keep up the good work.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like it would have been great fun.

@robinsmith8918

Жыл бұрын

I too

Fantastic travels, just what is needed on a bleak, wet and wild Tasmanian morning (snow down to 300mtr and gale force winds)

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Bbbbrrrhhh!!!

Great you clean up, I hope more people follow your example. A side note: Dolphins are mammals not fish.

A pleasure to watch...

My goodness, that swan family was adorable! I’m happy that they were not in the stinky stagnant water. I hope that where they were did not smell badly. What were those fruits you ate from the tree? You both were so delighted! Wow, having the back out due to low water, on the stressful side of cruising, yet you both came through with flying colors! You two are amazing to clean up after others on the canal banks and in the canal itself! I can’t imagine letting anybody in my family get in that weed, with a blowup porpoise or not! What a lovely church, thank you so much for going inside so that we got to see the memorial stainglass window for the soldiers! Yea for the otter family, seen at last! I enjoyed the nature preserve/reserve. I can’t remember which you called it in your narration. And what a sunset photograph! That’s the most beautiful the way to end your fantastic vlog episode! See y’all next time!

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Lynette. The fruits were lovely ripe cherries which are usually eaten by the birds before we get a chance. It seems unbelievable, but so many people were coming to swim near that weed. I preferred a cool shower. Thanks for watching

It beggars belief how people can leave all that rubbish behind .Strangely enough ,your day in reverse remind me so much of a day in the life of a caravaner on a journey here in Aus . Unexpected pleasure in finding a beautiful secluded spot mixed with the trials further on to gain a place for the night in one of the free parks .The trick there is to get there early or end up squashing in where you can much to the disdain of the early bird neighbours .Still,we love it .Cheers Fran and Rich . Enjoyed seeing the otters .

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

It has been a bit like that all along the river. Timing is everything

Families of otters are cute and great fun to watch... but just wait till the pups get lost and make so much noise calling for their parents... noisy little things!

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

I think that may have been the first thing we heard to let us know they were there. So loud!

Extending deepest sympathies on passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

Thanks for video. I'm sorry youns had to go backwards. My goodness I ant got nerves like that. I appreciate the time you spent. God bless.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

Thanks you two love your vlog today can't wait for another one .

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Otterly Fabulous to see Otters!

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

I get so much inspiration from our surroundings, it can be quite a problem

@otterhandmade1216

Жыл бұрын

@@FloatingOurBoat Taking time to look and enjoy the wonders all around you is worth so much

40 years ago there were 3 cottages and a crew yard forming a court yard at Tupholme Abbey wall, we tried to buy the site about ten years before that

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. Such a beautiful place. It is all going to wrack and ruin now.

Thank you, wonderful video.

Otters!❤️❤️❤️❤️

Dang, huge algae bloom!

Everything about the video was lovely. Thank you for a very enjoyable few minutes. If you ever decided to read a few series of books by David Eddings called the Belgariad and a 2nd series called the Mallorean, there are a few books written after both series about an ancient man and his daughter, who worked through generations of a line of kings. The daughter Polgara and the father Belgarath. It is his line they are herding and protecting. There is a chapter or two in the book Belgarath about a visit to the fens. The otters play a key role in that portion as the old lady there would like her otters to have speech. It’s a group of books you might loan if you trust someone but not books you read once and trade. They are keepers that you read again every 5 years or so and enjoy them equally every time. However, not everyone would enjoy them. Husband would bite his tongue if I described a section as he could not abide those kinds of books. Harry Potter for 30somethings, maybe. I enjoy them but I understand the objections. Anyway, I enjoy otters and I absolutely enjoy the author knowing them well enough to give them believable personalities. How well can you REALLY know an otter, though? (Wink wink)

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Wow Rebecca lovely to hear from you and you have definitely got my attention. I am going off straight away to look for these books and am so intrigued. Thank you x

Love your vlogs and all the places we are able to see with you both , but you really do make me homesick for UK, living in Canada now.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Oh, sorry about that, but Canada is surely beautiful too

I hope your life is as idyllic as you portray in your videos. Thanks again for sharing.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

It has its challenges now and then but is still idyllic to us. Not for everyone though

As a "real ale/beer" enthusiast, I have toured great swaths of the USA and Canada in order to sample the local brews. It would be great to emulate Robbie Cummings and visit the canal side pubs. A few of your ales are available here in Canada though.

Good to see you use these rejected canals, as authorities being what they are, will close it down.

This is the part of England that I love to see! I have little interest in cities, I love watching the wildlife, the fields and forests, and the villages and towns. Thank you so much for taking us along. Sorry you had to back-track so far, but as they say, nothing ventured nothing gained...

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I heard when they shot the movie Ben they used dachshunds to play the rat. Funny.

I wish I could love your vlogs instead of just like 💕

I agree about cleaning up, here in Alaska after 6 years, i am on my 3rd box of 100 kitchen sized garbage bags. Always leave a place better than i found it. When i was a stupidvisor in telcom i did the same, even got a weed whacker and brush killer spray for the poisin ivy.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

People comment that we are so good to clear up. We don't see it like that. We would feel bad if we didn't.

what a beautiful little church...brilliant scenery...you must get up to the Lancaster canal...no locks unless you go down to Glasson Basin......the hardest bit is crossing the river Ribble and depends on whether the tide is flowing or ebbing....

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

We are planning to do this next year

Rich and Fran, Just seen you with countryhouse gent. , You both look so well. smashing, missed you these few months sufferd another stroke, This is not being goo., But back to cause trouble Cheers.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

So sorry to hear this. We hope you are well on the road to recovery. We are always happy to have trouble from you xx

Great video,thought you night have to do a Humphrey Bogart African Queen and get in the water and drag the boat along😃

Lovely video. Thank you both 💓

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@Godwinpounds4333

Жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing?

Well done for cleaning up ! Many confuse mink for otters ... Welcome to their club lol You would have to get up at sunrise and sit perfectly still out of site to see an otter !! Mink on the other hand arnt afraid of humans at all ... they would happily swim at your side, jump on your boat and take food from your hand !! Mink hunt in numbers whilst otters hunt alone. Otters swim with only the tip of their nose and tail on show , whilst a mink swims head and body above water and will gladly swim on it's back ... That's how you know the difference !!

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

These were definitely otters. They are known to be around during the early evening along this stretch of river and their numbers are increasing along here

@jasonwoods3711

Жыл бұрын

@@FloatingOurBoat If you saw otters you would have alot more footage to show your viewers than that, them being a very rare sight n all ... But that said , no point debating it is there !! I know what you showed me on your vlog and we will have to have different opinions won't we lol

What a treat when the two swans pulled out and surprised us with a bunch of little babies following them just after the turn before the lock. Cute otters lovely video thank you again

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

The swans were obviously not used to boats on this canal as they kept swimming away from us for about a mile.

Such a peaceful vlog ❤️

Saving the planet, one dolphin at a time 😁. You're good people. Sorry about all the reversing you had to do because of the low water problem. I think we're all hoping for a wetter winter!

@Godwinpounds4333

Жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing?

Lovely part of the world, shame low water changed the plans, must all be part of the big scheme as it led you to some lovely Otters :)

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Plans are always changing, we just go along with it

ty for a great vlog xxx

Beautiful country, beautiful swans, beautiful music so peaceful and delightful thank you!

You did give it a go.

That's the first time I have ever seen rubbish by the bridge, the hot weather has been attracting dippers cooling off. Well done for clearing it up.

Shame about South Kyme, you did well to reverse all that way back....

Great trip, would be nice if one could harvest the weeds instead of throwing rubbish where they stand, good job.

Thank you for caring for the earth when others don’t! You’re a special couple & I love watching your videos!! Love from Idaho, USA. 🌻

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

We couldn't be any other way, I couldn't imagine seeing rubbish and leaving it behind. We are all responsible for our planet

I live just down the road at Bardney. I know the guy who sunk the ferry as a young boy. Bardney was a vibrant village in the day when the sugar factory and canning factory was open. 5 pubs and a factory club.

As well as the Otters I loved seeing the Great Crested Grebe swimming along with offspring on it's back, right at the beginning of the video on you starboard side.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

We’ll spotted. Although I took the footage and edited it I never noticed it had a chick on its back. 👍

Loved seeing the PG version of the reversing adventure 😂❤️

Oh Fran and Rich, you not only spotted the otters but filmed them for us, thank you, just thrilling! I’m going to watch again on the TV screen x

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

They played around the boat for about 20 mins then were there the next day too,

@joysedgwick812

Жыл бұрын

@@FloatingOurBoat what a wonderful treat, your commitment to the environment being amply rewarded perhaps? !

I have serious Otter envy! So glad and grateful you managed to capture a little footage to share. Beautiful Vlog. Thanks for letting us all join in your adventures. Stay well. xx

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

The Otters were certainly one of our best moments. We are pleased to be able to share it with you

Otters are the ultimate. So lucky to see them.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

We are, it was such a thrill

Well done Fran and Rich for your efforts to clean things up.

One of your best vlogs ever, so relaxing, thank you Richie and Fran (Beautiful)

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Brilliant. Fab cruise and scenery. Even the green water was pretty to look at although unusual. Thank you for taking us with you. So glad you spotted the otters. Take care

Hi Fran “muscles” and Rich, excellent video again, saving the wildlife and cleaning up. First time I have ever seen so much duckweed. Thanks for real enjoyment.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

No one should leave rubbish and why is there not people that clean all that green stuff not a low all that green stuff to build up in the waters. Great video

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the rubbish problem is worldwide. The green weed does get cleared on canals which are used more but it grows back so quicky it is impossible to keep up with it here. It is worse here as it is a dead end canal and the water does not move enough.

You two are such lovely people. I watch every video. Love following you. ❤❤ Never have understood people who litter.

You are both so good picking up all the trash. Love the music in this Vlog. Very relaxing and enjoyable, thank you xxx

Another fantastic vlog. You’d definitely be waiting a long time for that train to arrive!! Thank you both

When I was trip boat crew we had a trip were we drop off the passenger at a pub for lunch. We then reversed one and a half miles turn and back to the pub. All the steering was done with a proper long shaft in the bows. Not one of these lollipop sticks they put on modern boats.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

You must have been an expert

I always feel better after watching your vlog. Thanks!

Hi Fran & Rich, wonderful video! So happy for you both to have finally seen otters & sharing them with us! I loved watching & spending time with you both, it's always a lovely peaceful visit! Great reversing skills! Thank you for sharing, take really good care of yourselves, stay well! Lots of love Kathy x 💖

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

The otters have to be one of our biggest nature spotting highlights so far

Wonderful views I bet Fran got inspiration for weaving from those corn fields and all the different green on the water and banks 💕

Such a wonderfully contrasting video … good health to you both!

It's the only thing that is green this year we haven't had no rain for over 3 months love the video take care thanks.

You two have such an eye for beauty--it's a pleasure seeing things from your vantage point. Here in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. we have quite a few river otters. They love to cavort about on the floating docks, chasing one another around. Their one bad habit is pooping on the docks. Perhaps because of their diet, the smell is enough to knock you back a step. Ah well, we can enjoy their playing about and squeaking in the evening, and then pay the price with the need for scrubbing the morning stench away. I'm glad you finally got to see the little rascals.

@FloatingOurBoat

Жыл бұрын

Fortunately we didn't have to deal with the smelly remnants and could just enjoy the beauty and fun.

Good on you for picking up the rubbish. Thanks for sharing another great video. Till next time......