Coxbank

Last night we had some lovely sky’s with the clouds reflecting on the canal. These were taken around 10 o’clock, the second on on my phone.

 

What a day, we were about to set off with a nice clear canal and what happens, the chap behind gets me talking, as we are about to push off a Hudson boat comes by so I had visions of following him up Audlem but he turned into Overwater Marina.The Marina are doing their bit raising the profile of Fund the Waterways.

There was a boat ahead of us at the bottom of the flight but a steady flow of boats coming down. While I waited I was able to get this photo, there is normally a boat moored across the front of the cottages.

Things went well as far as the water point  just below the pub, which is where the congestion started then the pound above the pub it just got  worse so we pulled over for lunch. An hour and a quarter later we set off and still caught up with them all around lock 7. I understand at times they had three boats in a pound which caused a tangle with the odd boat coming down. We gave up before the last two locks and called it a day on the 48 hour moorings.
Of course there has been a quick walk up to the top lock to purchase a few goodies for later.

Todays Journey

 

3 miles with 13 locks in 4¾ hours