Just as we were about to get up it started to rain, so no rush. Todays plan is a cruise to Vale Royal locks and back up as we have a table booked at the Red Lion tonight.
Once the rain finally stopped we headed off, reversing out onto the Flash, what I hadn’t realised was just how windy it would be, which made life interesting for a few minutes. Back down the river the CRT jurisdiction doesn’t start until the second bridge by the Red Lion moorings. Apart from the boats that live up on the Flash we are the only boat on the river above Vale Locks. Passing the water outlet the flow was much greater than yesterday
with lots more foam with the flow reaching the far side of the river. At the salt mine a chap with his front loader was hard at work making the salt mountain bigger. There is a real range of colours in this salt, I don’t know if each colour has a different use.
We passed under the Swing Bridge again, I thought it was just a path but there was a car crossing just before we arrived.
We carried on downstream to Vale Royal locks where we winded and came up to the visitor moorings for lunch and when the sun came out with some nice blue sky made our way up the The Red Lion moorings at the head of the CRT navigation by bridge . I said earlier we were the only boat up here, just as we came in to moor 6 canoes came down from the Flash.
Today’s Journey
6 miles with no locks in 2 hours
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