Scarecrow competition at Wrenbury
Hire boaters don't wait! We had Rhapsody (foreground) held to the side in preparation to enter a Marina on the left and waited for the hireboat on the right to come thru. The hireboat in the center pulled alongside and turned into the Marina entrance cutting across the bow of the on coming boat. Crash!
The staircase locks at Grindly Brook are a work of art and have a lockkeeper to assist boaters and to decide who's next, up or down. Without the lockkeeper this section would be un-navigable.
Lift Bridges vary from walk paths to this vehicle bridge. The lift mechanism is operated by a hand windlass which you use to turn the shaft of the hydraulic pump in the foreground. Effortless!
Poor weather has restricted our cruising over the past few days. It is squally, windy, rainy interposed by sunshine. Any way we have travelled the last section of the Llangollen downstream to it's junction with the Shropshire Union at Hurlestone, then we turned left up the main line of the Shroppie to Barbridge Junction. We moored opposite a quaint Inn and enjoyed a meal there. Plenty of birds and indeed two white swans that appear from nowhere each time we moor. Maybe they like us or maybe it's the bread scraps that we give them. It's decision time, whether to continue north to Chester and Ellesmere Port or take a right turn along the SUC Middlewich branch. http://www2.mihalis.net/canal/cgi-bin/gazette.cgi?where=$pqeo
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