It was five and a half miles and eight locks into Gargrave, a very pretty little village with a nice tea shop. We encountered this bridge called, imaginatively, Double Arched Bridge and it was so winding that at one point that we could almost reach out and touch a boat coming along where we had just been.
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| Double arched bridge. |
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| Over the back wall is the roof of the boat following us. |
The views at the locks are some of the loveliest we have seen and there was a very pretty lock cottage at the bottom of the Bank Newton six flight.
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| The best lock view on the canals? |
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| The locker in action. |
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| The date above the door is 1797 so it was built with the canal. |
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| Welcome to Gargrave locks; the rain is coming..... |
We moored in Gargrave just as the rain started. It continued all evening and we dug in for the night.
On Monday we visited the tea shop and local co-op and admired the river Aire which goes through the village. We'll meet it again in Leeds. We went for a rather perilous bike ride along the tow path in a heavy and un-forecast shower. There were oyster catchers with young in the fields. This one wasn't happy about us even though we were on the other side of the canal. He dive-bombed us and generally gave us what for from his fence post as we went past.
This is the most northerly point of the canal. We will turn south east as we come out of the village.
There's more rain forecast for tomorrow (surprise!) but we'll push on to Skipton.
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