Early morning leaving Joinville. Clean waters, swimming.

HEre is Julian as our first lock this morning as we leave Joinville.

Leaving the lock.

 Looking back at our mooring last night where we swam in the canal.  The waters here are so clean.  So much water considering that there is little rain.

We used the gang plank ladder to get in and out by hooking the rope at the en over a bollard on the quay.

15 minutes later there was a lovely sunset.

Me in the water. It looked much clearer than the River Marne which is followed by the canal all the way until Epinal when the River Marne is large enough to be navigable to Paris. It makes you realise how Paris came to be the capital, having two great navigable rivers flowing into it the Marne from the east and the Seine from the South.