Are We There Yet ?

Hi gang,

This will be the last blog entry we make, for this adventure at least.

We left you at Tixall Wide and it was such a nice place we decided to put our feet up and stay another day and take it easy.



We set off again on Monday morning and turned onto our final canal, The Trent & Mersey.


Heading north towards Stone where we stopped for supplies and a splash of diesel before finding a quiet spot for the night.

The following morning we struck out for Stoke. The plan was to clear the town and wait near Harecastle tunnel for crewman Kelly to arrive. There were some very interesting locks, from the towpath, or pretty scary from the boat. Deep and narrow they seem to almost start to close in above you. There were plenty of low bridges too.



Plus the signature bottle kilns along the way.



The weather held fine and we were making excellent progress so we decided to press on through the tunnel.

Which started of fine but gets a little, challenging half way through !

Watch your head !

On the other side crewman Kelly was waiting,



so we put him straight to work and rattled off a few more locks.




Before mooring for the night at Church Lawton, in the exact same spot we had used early on in the voyage.



Today was the last proper day of the meanderings. Tomorrow we pack everything up and tidy Maya ready for Friday when we do the last few miles to Northwich and drop her off at the brokers. It's fitting that crewman Kelly was with us on the last day because he was there on the first day too, before this blog even began, and he helped us through Manchester as well.



We dropped crewman Kelly off in Middlewich and headed for the solitude of the countryside. Along the way we passed through this lock

it might not look like anything special, but it's the last narrow lock well ever do.

So this is it, the end. The meanderings are over. Thanks for looking after us Maya you've been fantastic.