Friday 17th June 2022
We set off just before 10am and made our way to the first lock of the day, Dean lock. Luckily we only have two to do today. Here we met up with nb Abraxus, with whom we cruised last July on the Leicester Arm. They were off up the Rufford Arm and had a deadline to get to a pre-booked mooring and so at Appley Lock we let them go ahead with the single boat already there waiting to pass through.
There is some lovely mature woodlands along the Douglas valley. Brenda heard a woodpecker at work and wondered whether the bird identity app had that in it’s database, but we didn’t get chance to try. Then we saw a large terrapin taking the sun on a floating log – wildlife indeed.
We leapfrogged with another jolly crew until they also made off up the Rufford Arm leaving us to proceed into Burscough Bridge. All of the moorings before the bridge were taken as it appeared that a boat club jolly had moved into town. We cruised under the bridge and past the permanent moorings to find a spot, exactly the right size, between two other moored boats on the next 14 day spot.
The boat behind us was also Liverpool bound but would be leaving the docks on the same day as we are scheduled to enter. When the owners of the boat in front returned, they enquired whether we had used a bow thruster to get into such a tight gap but Graham told them we didn’t have one and had reversed in using a rope to finish.
We then started packing ready to return home for ten days once Graham had fetched the car from Barnton.
G&B
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