After a few days at home we arrived back at Harold on Monday evening, the first of August. It was exactly a year since we set off on our watery adventure, so in the evening a toast was made to Harold and his crew. On Tuesday morning we set off early towards Liverpool. There are some swing bridges as you get nearer the city centre which CRT need to open for you and the timings are prescribed. We arrived at the first one in perfect time for it's 1.30pm opening slot.
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| The CRT guys closing the Handcock's swing bridge behind us. |
The canal was clear enough to see all the plastic bags on the bottom. We didn't see so many fish here, but for much of the way, waterlilies made a stunning yellow border along the canal sides.
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| Waterlillies on the way into Liverpool. |
We saw newly hatched coots (a second brood probably), moorhens and this young heron which didn't seem to mind us coming past his floating roost. He wasn't moving anyway.
Initially, the countryside is flat and a bit uninspiring. The canal curves around the north of the City and enters from the north west. After a while the suburbs of Liverpool appeared, with the huge cranes of the Mersey in the distance. It was mostly housing and the edges of Aintree racecourse. After a total of 15 miles, we moored at the Litherland visitor moorings, as recommended by the CRT staff. There we met a couple of the other boats which will be travelling into the Liverpool docks with us tomorrow.
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