Goldstone Wharf to High Offley (Shropshire Union Canal)

Lunch with Sheila & Tony

My Scampi Lunch

Huge Ploughmans

Shebdon Enbankment

Yesterday (Wednesday), we stayed put and at lunch time we met Sheila & Tony in the Wharf Tavern, the pub we were moored opposite.  They are our friends from Audlem.  We had a lovely lunch as the food is always really good there, Kev and Tony had the Ploughmans which is enormous and I had the home-made Scampi and Sheila had the Lasagne.  After lunch, they came back to our boat for a coffee with their dog Brock who was in the car.  We had a great time with them, lots of laughs and fun, it was so lovely they came to meet us and we will look forward to meeting up with them again.

Passing Bethsaida Covers

Lots of Moored Boats

Today, we are on the move,

Church at High Offley

Great Views

no Sun, but at least it was dry as we set off along the canal and soon we were going along Shebdon Enbankment which is a very straight bit of the canal and past Tony at Bethsaida Covers, where we stopped last time to get some repairs done on our covers.

We chugged on along the canal and on this stretch there are many moored boats, as far as the eye can see.

The Wrekin in the Distance

Now that is big!

We moored at High Offley just before the Anchor pub.  Just before we got here, we picked up a log on the front of the boat, I tried to move it off as we were going along but I couldn't, so when we moored up, Kev got it out of the water and my goodness it was huge, no wonder I couldn't shift it and Kev said he could feel at the back when we were going along, we are always picking up small branches and reeds on the front as we go along, but this is the biggest!

View from the Bridge

We had lunch, then went out for a walk as there are a few caches in this area.  We walked up the lane and came to the Church which is really nice and it was open so we went inside and had a look around.  The views from the Church Yard are lovely you can see for miles as it is up on a hill.  We then walked on down the road and then on a footpath through a field and back down some more lanes and eventually came back to the canal and along the towpath back to the boat, it was a about a 3 mile circular walk.

We are staying here tonight then off to Norbury Junction tomorrow.

Moored at High Offley