MONDAY. Lancaster Canal, Br.70
The 2008 trip thus far: 342 Locks; 666.5 Miles; 66 Swing\Lift Bridges. Bus pass journeys 35
This morning was spent in wandering around Glasson and looking at the view from the observation point. Then we had a bacon roll in the ‘Lantern’ cafe before moving off.
We moored again above lock4 and were taking it easy when at 3.50pm, the telephone rang. It was Leanne from BW office at Wigan. The weather forecast for Friday, our booked Ribble link day is not looking good; could we possibly bring it forward to Thursday?
Faced with the prospect of Christmas on the Lancaster canal, I said yes. So, Myra prepared our dinner and after having eaten; we moved off as we now had one day less to get down to the link. We had two thunderstorms almost overhead as we were eating; the rain stopped whilst we did the locks and restarted as we cleared the top lock and Myra went inside.
For the next hour, it alternated between rain and deluge, with the latter coming out on top. As we reached bridge 70, there was a good piling edge; I decided to stop here as my hands were getting cold in sympathy with my feet.
We managed to get the front within two feet and the back about four feet out. Secured to the piling, I climbed inside and just for a change; the rain did not stop immediately. In fact it only stopped momentarily, all evening. We are keeping our fingers crossed, we do not want too much fresh in either the Ribble or the Douglas to scupper the new Ribble link date.
Weather – Dry morning, then thunderstorms and a lot of rain!
