Through Hurleston Locks now at Coole Pilate moorings on the Shropie

Friday 25 May 2018

No posts over the last few days as no EE signal. We have though had a few good sunny days which has got us off the Llangollen Canal. One of our most productive days had us cover 12 miles and go through 13 locks in 6.7 hours. The final part down Hurleston Locks today was in pouring rain. We again stopped on the Nantwich Embankment and walked in the rain to town for the usual shopping and coffee. On our return it had stopped raining so at 14.45 we pushed off for a couple of hours and tonight we have moored on SUCs moorings at Coole Pilate near bridge 83 just before Audlem. The Shropshire Union Canal Society does excellent work and provides very good moorings all along the canal. Hopefully tomorrow will be a journey up the Audlem flight of 15 locks but the forecast does not look promising.

One last view of Blake Mere as we leave Ellesmere

There is a lovely wooden chalet that over looks Cole Mere,not a very good photo but it gives an idea of its location

Our mooring Wednesday night just past bridge 37 before the Whitchurch Arm

We had an early call from this fellow in the field opposite the other day

It was for the sun the other day - today it would have been for the rain
Our mooring tonight at Coole Pilate,we are the boat in the distance

A very long line of cows wending their way back to the fields

We came across a narrow boat with two birds of prey on the roof

A lapwing in the field opposite the boat tonight