Thursday 26th May 2022
Grey skies are going to clear up – put on a happy face … or so they said. Tomorrow, tomorrow, the sun will come out tomorrow ….
It was a morning of squally showers with the wind mostly at 90 degrees to Jannock’s route. Never the less, we made very good time with all of the locks being in our favour due to some in-considerate southbound boater leaving all the top gates open from Crows Nest to Rumps lock. At Middlewich we met a southbound boat leaving Kings lock and then found CaRT vo-lockies on all three of the Middlewich locks. Brenda managed to execute the sharp bend between the top lock and second with perfect precision.
This had us at a good mooring by 12o’clock which was deemed to early to moor up even if Graham wanted to do a car shuffle from Church Lawton. Sadly no sign of the Tam-Lin crew as they are off to Scotland for a steam train trip.
On then through glorious countryside with a quick stop at the council tip to recycle our rubbish. The scenery gradually changed from lovely country side with side flashes where we remember seeing abandoned working boats many years ago and into big industrial landscape.
Old chemical works are being pulled down and replaced by new ones being built. many new homes now exist where people have worked for centuries, taking salt from underground. There is even a new marina being built near basin bridge. Brenda loved this sign approaching the Tata salt works.
The weather brightened during our journey until about 3 o’clock when it turned very grey again and then poured down for about an hour. During this deluge Graham managed to find a suitable overnight mooring spot and tie us up with no help from the wind or rain.
The minute we were safely tied up and he had stripped out of his soaked attire, the rain stopped and the sun came out for the rest of the evening.
G&B
1 comment:
The steam sign is needed, on a cold still day the whole area can be in a very low cloud of steam, just like fog. As for the new marina that is Orchard Marina being refurbished, they have been at it for about 3 years now, all the moorers moved over to Park Farm marina. I thought they may have had water back in by now the way they were progressing when we passed.
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