On to the Mackie

 

After leaving the River Weaver we passed this boat…I Wonder who they worked for ???

 

On Wednesday we called in to Middlewich to do a food and wine shop as the Tesco store is fairly close to the canal…….What a good name,  I've got a good mate called Razor Sharp  e.

 

More fun with the hire boaters. Not sure what happened here on the lock approach. He was tied on to the mooring bollard but I guess he just used the end of the centre line. The fisherman set up where he was didn’t help matters.

 

A good boat name for me !

 

Now on the Trent and Mersey and with over 30 locks in front of us Carolyn is taking them in her stride. Here we have passed under the M6 Motorway and continue our journey towards the Macclesfield canal.

 

A lot of the locks are double locks and intended to speed up your passage, but there are several that are under repair or have been filled in and made redundant.

 

Oh look !!!! A very well kept STW    …..What ever that is ???

 

As soon as we got on to the Maccelsfield canal Carolyn spotted this little lot. Its wild Raspberries and I had to reverse Inca back in to the off side bank so we could fill a bowl with the little beauties.

 

We certainly didn’t do any of that whilst on our way.

 

No wonder it takes us so long to get anywhere . Yet more wild raspberries , good job we've got some clotted cream to have them with.

 

What a Silly Cow.

 

This is 300036 and he is Carolyn's new friend. His new name is Barney…….. For some reason Carolyn likes cows.

 

Approaching Bosley bottom lock with The Cloud (A Big Hill) in the background.

 

There are 12 locks on the Bosley flight and it must be the most enjoyable and picturesque flights we have done so far. The temperature was in the mid twenties when we went up the flight . What's unusual about these locks is that all the gates are mitered gates. So there are 2 gates on each end of a lock.

 

Nearly at the top and what a view. After 5 hours of cruising and locking we picked up a good mooring at the top of the flight . We had rain on Sunday so decided to sit still and do some much needed maintenance and tidying up on Inca. We will then be heading up to the end of the Macclesfield canal and then on to the Peak Forest canal.

 

                                                                                                                                        Happy Days