Day 35 - Bosley Bottom Lock

Tuesday 7th July

6 miles

Cruised to Bosley top lock. Weather showery but was quite kind to us. Stopped in the arm of the services to get rid of rubbish and fill up with water.

Met an old chap just pulling off on nb Eleanor he had a lot of old wood on board. When we got to the services we met another man with a van who said he was waiting for it to unload wood etc. Eleanor went down one lock and as we went down he was waiting on the lock landing for his mate. A few locks down we met the CRT volunteer lock keepers who asked if we'd had any trouble coming down as they had had a report that a boat was stuck in the mud at lock 1, explained about Eleanor and they set off to assist.

Locks went smoothly the first six we passed a boat going up making it much easier. The second six we had to work on our own.



Our mooring with the bottom lock in the background

Moored behind Margarita at the bottom of the locks - for a quiet night. Watched Wimbledon. Heard someone shout it was a chap asking for water and to have his phone charged! I think he was tipped off by the chap at Lyme Green. He said he was camping along the towpath.

... and the Cloud ahead