Wrenbury to Bridge 12 - Llangollen Canal

Friday 26^th to Saturday 27^th July

Friday – We stayed put today and just did a few jobs and went for a walk up to the local shop.  In the evening, we went for tea at the Dusty Miller pub.  The food was really good, it’s a very nice friendly pub.

Going through the lift bridge

Saturday – We want to move on today but it was raining all morning so we stayed put.  It got brighter and by about 4pm it had almost stopped raining so we decided to move on.

Passing moored boats at Wrenbury

Through the next lift bridge

Going under a foot bridge

There was a lift bridge just up from where we were moored, so I left Kev to untie and I walked up to the bridge to open it.  This bridge is electric, so I put my key in, shut the barrier and opened the bridge.  Kev came through and there was a boat coming the other way so I let them through as well before closing the bridge.  This is not a busy road but we did hold up several cars, ooh the power we have!!

Coming to the top of the locks

We chugged on around the corner where there is another lift bridge but this one is manual, you have to wind it up.  A hire boat came out of the moorings as I opened the bridge so we let them through then Kev followed behind and then I shut the bridge.

Baddiley No. 1 Lock

Baddiley No. 2 Lock

Coming out of Lock No. 2

We went on for about a mile and it did start to rain again but not too much and then we were approaching Baddiley locks.  The hire boat in front of us with three lads on board were just going through so Kev and I shut the gates for them, filled the lock for us and soon we were on our way to the next one.  We didn’t have to shut the gates as a boat was coming the other way.

Weedy By-Wash

By the time we got to the second one, the rain had stopped and the hire boat was just going out the lock and they opened the paddles to fill the lock for us before they went on their way, that was kind of them and a help as by the time I had got off the boat the lock was almost ready for us.  There was quite a bit if weed in the lock which Kev hauled out so it wouldn’t go round our prop.  

Baddiley Lock No. 3

There was also a lot of weed at the bottom of the lock where the by-wash comes out, probably to do with all the hot weather making it grow.

We had one more lock to do and when we got there, the lads had gone through but opened the paddles again for us.  We were soon at the bottom of the lock and we chugged under the next bridge No. 13 and moored up before Bridge 12.

We are staying here tonight and also tomorrow as the forecast is for rain all day, then hopefully Monday will be a dry day and we will move on.

Moored at Bridge 12