Thursday 1 st September
Yet another slow start. Ate breakfast at the picnic tables. JB had lots of safe place where she could run around without harming herselfor anyone else. Lockside was immaculately kept.
Headed on downstream towards Goole. Saw herons and cormorants on the way. Passed the entrance to the New Junction canal and then was joined by Vermuyden's Dutch canal which runs in parallel with the Aire and Calder to Goole.
Moored at Rawcliffe Bridge but the Black Horse was closed. We ate lunch and just as we were preparing to leave it opened, around 4 pm. At the same time a stream of boats passed us coing up from Goole but none stopped. Unlike the older canals there doesn't not seem to be the same number of canalside pubs, but hti is perhaps because these waterways were built later to accommodate coal driven barges which went faster and did not need watering points for horses.
Made Goole late afternoon and walked over the swing bridges in to town. We couldn't find any waterfront pubs and ate (again) at a Weatherspoons.
On the way back we saw a swing bridge open to let a big cargo ship, the Baltic Sailor, back out. Quite a tight manoevre!
A couple of bigger boats passed us as we sat on the back. Clear, starry night.
Yet another slow start. Ate breakfast at the picnic tables. JB had lots of safe place where she could run around without harming herselfor anyone else. Lockside was immaculately kept.
Headed on downstream towards Goole. Saw herons and cormorants on the way. Passed the entrance to the New Junction canal and then was joined by Vermuyden's Dutch canal which runs in parallel with the Aire and Calder to Goole.
Moored at Rawcliffe Bridge but the Black Horse was closed. We ate lunch and just as we were preparing to leave it opened, around 4 pm. At the same time a stream of boats passed us coing up from Goole but none stopped. Unlike the older canals there doesn't not seem to be the same number of canalside pubs, but hti is perhaps because these waterways were built later to accommodate coal driven barges which went faster and did not need watering points for horses.
Made Goole late afternoon and walked over the swing bridges in to town. We couldn't find any waterfront pubs and ate (again) at a Weatherspoons.
On the way back we saw a swing bridge open to let a big cargo ship, the Baltic Sailor, back out. Quite a tight manoevre!
A couple of bigger boats passed us as we sat on the back. Clear, starry night.
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