17 miles, 3 tunnels and one stop-lock today. Still warmish but wet at times. We negotiated the three narrow and winding tunnels, each only one way and two with time limited passage (between the hour and twenty past going one way and the half past to twenty to the hour going the other). A family of swans were also making their way along the canal and we met them at the end of the first tunnel and in the middle of the second. The third tunnel, Preston Brook ,was particularly winding so that half way through the light at the end disappeared for quite a while.
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| No light at the end of the tunnel.. |
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| Looking up into an air-vent from the middle of the tunnel. |
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| Meeting swans in the dark |
As we emerged from the Preston Brook tunnel the canal miraculously became the Bridgewater Canal, the first canal built in the Industrial age by the Duke of Bridgewater to take coal from Liverpool to Manchester. The Bridgewater canal is not owned by the CRT but by the Manchester Ship Canal (which was eventually built to replace it) and we only have 7 days on it before we need to buy a separate license. We went under the M6.
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| The M6 |
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| Under the M6! |
We eventually stopped for the night in Lymm, a small and rather posh town which managed to avoid being industrialised by not having any coal or soft water. It did however have a useful Sainsbury's local open late on a Sunday evening. We'll need to push on again tomorrow to get to the end of this canal before need to go home on Wednesday.
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