Welcoming aboard our crew for today we left Burscough in showery weather.
No Rufford Branch for us this year.
Glover's Swing Bridge, first of three.
Next is Spencer's Swing Bridge and men at work who eventually managed to get the bridge to open!!!
Beautiful displays of bluebells in Douglas Valley, a pretty wooded valley the canal shares with the railway.
Time for Bill to dust off his windlass at Appley Lock
We share this 12ft deep lock with a single handed boater. So glad Bill is here to share the work.
The water level is down a good foot in this pound and we narrowly avoid going a ground.
Onward to Dean Lock where the old lock keepers cottage has been recently sold and renovated, pity it is so close to the M6
3 swing bridges and 2 locks later we are moored at Crooke.
Totals to date : 2 locks and 5 swing bridges.
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