Lymm

Not the best mooring last night, that Metro is quite noisy and runs from early morning until midnight. We were away at our normal 10 am and for a while didn’t see much but joggers and dog walkers. Our first encounter with a rower was well passed the straight and I spotted them in very good time with the bright coloured shirt. We are nowhere as near as it looks in the photo and they pulled over hard against the bank to let us pass with ease. Its a pity they are not all so easy to spot.

As you can see we ware almost at the Linotype works and I have tried to get a better photo of the old buildings one of which is still unconverted.

Just passed Old Field Quay just before Seamonds Moss Bridge Diana spotted a fox at the bottom of the garden of one of the canal side houses.

I wondered if it was dead just laying out in the open like that so a gave in a quick whistle and it responded before curling up and going back to sleep.

I actually had passed the fox and reversed back for the photo so was surprised it was still there.
We stopped at Ye Old Number Three to fill the water tank, by now the canal was getting quite busy, we met this canoe  who was trying to overtake a family of Swans but the Cobb was not impressed sharing the canal with them.

On the hard at Hesford is a motorised butty, with a hydraulic motor and propeller mounted in the ellm. It saves chopping the hull about and can easily go back to being a butty.

We carried on to Lymm where we were lucky to get a mooring and there have been some dubious moorings carried out since we have been here, places I wouldn’t moor. Its like Piccadilly Circus here now with boats passing, stopping, reversing but we have not been hit yet.

Today’s Journey

9¾ miles, no locks in 3½ hours