Christmas 2023 the kids brought us a Manchester Ship Canal (MSC) cruise, which we booked for September 2024. We left the boat near Foxton, in the midlands to have the blacking on it’s bottom checked and headed to Liverpool on the train.
It was a fine but breezy day for our trip. We picked up Mersey Ferry ‘Snowdrop’ at Pier head, Liverpool. The River Mersey was a bit choppy.
The sea lock at Eastham on the Wirral was huge. The MSC is still used for some freight & we saw some ships docked and passed one.
There is just a small wall that separates the MSC.
It looked like the ferry wouldn’t actually get under some of the bridges, but it did.
Foxton has a heritage community orchard, so we took the opportunity to pick some rare apple varieties.
On our travels along the North Oxford Canal we passed the repairs of a massive land slip that closed the canal the winter of 2023. The sign asks boats go past the repairs at tick-over, which we did, and another narrow boat promptly overtook us!
Some community wall art through Stoke-on-Trent
And, we knew autumn had arrived.
Couldn't imagine doing this job – the chaps were re-puddling a lock overflow.
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