Barnton

Here I am Rune

Distance 4.7 miles

Total 1130 Locks 59 Tunnels

Running total mileage 1525 miles

It is amazing how much better everything seems when the sun is shining! We have had an excellent day’s cruise today taking us down from the Trent and Mersey canal, via the Anderton Boat lift onto the River Weaver. The strong winds of yesterday have abated and it was a pleasant sunny day, what being on the water should all be about.

The day’s plans didn’t start too well as we attended the booking office of the boat lift to book our passage, to be told by the girl on the desk that there was currently a problem with the boat lift but they were working to fix it. Eventually we went down on it at 12.50pm along with and old Canal Club boat also having a couple of days on the River Weaver. Not knowing much about this river I didn’t know what to expect but, so far, it has been a really pleasant experience. A lot of it has been a bit like being on the Thames although we did pass a derelict industrial site today that you wouldn’t find on the Thames. There is very little flow on the river to slow us down (or speed us up if we were travelling with it) but there is a good depth of water which enables the boat to go a bit quicker. I think that the likelihood is that we’ll be here until Saturday or more likely Sunday.

I also got confirmation that our booking to go into Liverpool Docks has been processed so we need to be at Aintree Racecourse for 9am on 29^th May to be escorted through into the docks, everyone we have spoken to says how brilliant Liverpool Docks are so now we shall be able to find out.

Tomorrow it will be on towards the pleasures of Runcorn.

The Boat lift from the top........

........and from the bottom

                                            A short video just before the start of the descent, unfortunately the full descent video was too long for this site.