Goytre Wharf | A walk by the Brecon Canal and Day Boat hire

Today’s adventure around Monmouthshire took us to the beautiful are of Goytre Wharf. It’s only a 20 min drive from our little house so we decided to take the dogs for a walk by the Canal. The Wharf is well sign posted off the A4042 road to Abergavenny  and there is plenty of room to park. It does cost a £1 to park so make sure that you some cash.
It really is a beautiful area to walk around. There were plenty of people there and children playing by the Aqua duct Cottage. There was also a Sponsored Walk going on so we were very aware to keep the dogs on a tight lead. Not that ours would do anything bad, I just never assume that everyone is a dog lover. We always make sure that kids and Parents walk passed first and if their child wants to stop and pet one of Malamutes, then that is fine.
There are plenty of boats moored up at the side all painted up in pretty colours. We wondered how much one would be to hire, so we walked around to the Dry Dock where they have information on hiring out their boats. You can hire a 5 berth boat for the day for £105 which is pretty good.
 As we walked up the side of the canal, Guinness’ out youngest, was very taken by the ducks who were fighting. We couldn’t pull her away and were busy laughing at her expression. Bless her!

 

We walked back down the side of the Canal, where we were stopped a few times so the dogs could have a pet, and stopped off at the beautiful canal side Café/Restaurant called Canale which is ran as an Italian café. The ice cream is simply wonderful! After a well-earned drink for us all, we walked back to the car and came home where the fur kids had two massive bowls of water and we had a couple of sneaky ciders!