There was wind and rain yesterday evening and overnight, but there appeared to be a window of better weather first thing this morning — so we were up and off just after 8. The first of the five locks down into Chester was about half an hour away. All of them needed filling. They have chunky iron ladders on the bottom side, which almost look as though they’re made from railway tracks.
It’s not long since we came this way, so it’s a job to take different photos.
Above Chemistry Lock, the canal is clogged with floating pennywort, with just a boat width left. Later the little boat with the prongs on the front came down to where we moored, and was scooping huge clumps of it out and dumping it on the offside.
There’s a funny little building above Hoole Lane Lock, and we were trying to work out how many houses it’s been converted into.
With the five locks completed, we carried on to the winding hole by Cow Lane Bridge, and turned around — then moored up in a space nearby. We’re a boat length or two along from where we were last time. No sooner had we moored up than the rain began, and it’s also become increasingly blustery. We walked into town and had lunch at a cafe, then went to the Picture House cinema, as it’s ages since we’ve been. We saw The Roses, which was moderately entertaining. Nice comfy seats, upholstered in some sort of towelling!
Tomorrow is meant to be very windy and stormy, but we weren’t planning to go anywhere anyway.
2 miles, 5 locks. (22 miles, 11 locks)
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