On The Move Day One

Busy at Ellesmere

Cruising near Tetchill

The weather forecast was correct, it certainly was windy and rained all night. We could hear ice scraping past the boat. In the morning it was still raining so I put on the wet gear for walk with Ben before we headed down to the waterpoint. Eric went off to get a couple of bags of coal once we were turned around and I filled the boat with water and got rid of the rubbish. Soon we were ready to go - day one of our cruise to Llangollen. The rain stopped as I walked alongside the boat with Ben for an hour, he was enjoying new scenery just as much as I was. Any boats we passed asked if you could turn around at the waterpoint and the answer was yes you can but carefully due to ice and moored boats.

We enjoyed having the canal to ourselves with nobody moving except us and soon we passed Jack Mytton's and came to New Marton Locks, the bottom one was empty so it was a case of opening the gates but the top one was full so I had to empty it before we could use it. They'll be the last locks we do for a couple of months which is just as well as my wrist is still sore where I fell before Christmas. We finally stopped at Poacher's Pocket, it was getting cold and the sun was going down.