Anderton

Here I am Rune

Distance 10.2 miles

Total 2958 Locks  148 Tunnels

Running total mileage 4293.2 miles

Stage on of the exercise was completed today, we travelled as far as Anderton so tomorrow we should hopefully get through to Preston Brook and back to here and then back to Middlewich by Thursday, easily beating the Monday deadline before they close Big Lock. Interestingly we got through Big lock today without any problem, it is very slow to fill but once full the gate opened OK.

The rest of the trip was just a repeat of the last time we came up here, weather was OK and not very much on the move. One of the only moving boats we passed was towing but fortunately we passed it on a reasonably open section of canal, after having just come through a bridge. It would have been a different matter had we met them at the bridge.

Tomorrow we, once again, have 6 tunnels to negotiate (or 3 tunnels times 2) but since the days are starting to stretch out a bit, we have another hour of daylight to play with compared to the last time we went through.