Lydiate

Here I am Rune

Distance  5.6 miles

Total 3598 Locks  223 Tunnels

Running total mileage 5272.9 miles

Today’s trip was intentionally a short hop since the primary purpose of the exercise was to get through Coxhead Swing Bridge (Bridge 20) which, due to damage caused by vandalism, is only opened on Mondays and Fridays at noon. Since we needed to be the Liverpool side of the bridge to complete our passage into Salthouse Dock on Sunday it was imperative that we got through Bridge 20 today. Having done so we moored for the night at Bridge 18 since we now have a couple of days to kill before going into Liverpool docks.

The weather was much as forecast, a bit of rain this morning and drying up this afternoon. I did debate whether to go to the Morrisons supermarket at Maghull or wait until we get to Litherland tomorrow where there is a large Tesco store, opted to wait until tomorrow, particularly as the Tesco is alongside the canal (Morrisons would have been a mile and a half walk).