Thursday 29th June
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| Coming into Lock 12 |
We are moving down the locks a bit this morning, just down
two locks. We set off along the canal
and into lock 12, they are not very deep locks, so doesn’t take long to go
through.
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| Running the rapids! |
The side wash at the bottom of this lock is particularly
fierce so Kev had to run the rapids when he came out of the lock, it did hit us
into the side and we lost one of our small fenders!
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| Passing the Shroppie Fly |
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| Coming out of Lock 13 |
We passed Audlem Mill and the Shroppie Fly pub and into lock
13. Soon through there and we first
stopped at the water point and then moored in the visitor moorings just along
from there. There was an old duffer who
moors on the other side of the canal and he waited until we were coming
out the lock then proceeded to come
across the canal in front of us. He said
he was coming over as he had a delivery, think he was going to wait in the
water point, but we didn’t give him the opportunity and he had to go in the
visitor moorings and then he pulled his boat right up to ours even though there
was tons of room so Kev told him that was far enough as he didn’t have a front
fender and we didn’t want him hitting our boat.
He took ages to tie up and confused two other boats going in and out of
the locks as his boat kept going across the canal and then he pulled it back,
no-one really knew what he was doing, silly old duffer!
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| Overwater Marina |
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| Spot the cache! |
We went for a walk in the afternoon up to Overwater Marina
which is about a mile or so up the towpath.
It is a nice walk and the marina is really nice and there is also a café
there so we stopped for coffee and also bought some local honey. There was also a cache on the way to the
marina and it was hanging in a tree, quite ingenious.
After we got back from the marina, we called round to see
our friend Jane and had a nice chat with her.
We are staying in these moorings now until Sunday and tomorrow we are
off on the bus to Whitchurch.
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| Moored between Locks 13 and 14 |
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