Sunday pub lunch

After a nice Sunday drive we found this pub called The Anchor in Wisley along the River Wey. It's a beautiful setting right on the water. The food was good (I had steak and ale pie) and the desserts were great too! They had a selection of 6 mini desserts which you could order individually or have all 6 for a slightly reduced price. We got all six (shared it between the four of us so it's not as bad as it sounds!) and were so excited when it arrived that I never took a picture!

After lunch we went for a walk outside and watched the boats coming through the lock. It was my first time actually seeing how this works. On the one side of the lock the water level is higher than on the other side. So if the boat is at the top, it opens the lock gates and enters the lock, closing the gates behind the boat. Then someone opens the sluice gates to let the water out and lower the boat to the level of the water at the bottom. When it is at the right level the gates will open and the boat goes on it's way. It works the other way round too of course. You can open the sluice gates at the top to fill the lock when you need to go up. A bit like an elevator for boats! Click here for an illustration of how this works. It's a cute site where you can click to go up or down the river and it shows you with pictures what happens.

Letting water in from the top to fill the lock up.

And then letting water out to lower the boat.

The guys helped opening and closing the gates for the boats for a while.

It was a lovely end to the Sunday and it felt even better knowing there was one more day left of the weekend! A little more on what we did yesterday for the Bank Holiday later.