Sunday, June 12, 2022

A two tunnel afternoon.

Sunday 12th June 2022

Ready for our next hop northwards, we arrived at Jannock at 3pm having stopped for supplies and a ‘two teas and toasted teacakes please’ in Middlewich Morrisons.

On our descent down the Anderton Lift last week, one of the caissons had hiccoughs and took two goes to get going. This week it is running with only one caisson in operation due to repairs being required.

Having moved all our possessions onto the boat using the festival cart, we set off to pass through both Barnton and Saltersford tunnels to moor for the night out in the countryside.


 

Barnton tunnel is not ‘time controlled’ and so once we could see that no-one was coming the other way we entered. Part way through, a southbound boats headlight appeared at the other end so Graham sounded a long horn blast which stopped him in his tracks.


 

We thanked him as we left the tunnel and then arrived at Saltersford tunnel just as the big hand reached the 12 which meant we could go straight in behind the two boats that had been waiting there. Unfortunately the first boat was very slow and so we did the full length of the tunnel on tick-over.


 

We then passed these tree sculptures before going under under bridge 204 (Daleford House) and tied up against the bank for the night just as it started to rain – excellent timing today.

G&B

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