In terms of boating we hardly got the chance to move this summer. Almost all of our time was consumed with housing related activities and this resulted in us making short return trips to places I told you all about last year, hence the lack of blog entries. However, I'm determined to log our life afloat from now on!
I suppose the major event I could have reported on was the long awaited marina at Pennington Wharf (or Plank Lane Pontoons as I like to call it 😉). We were moored in the area as the first pontoons were brought down having been craned onto the canal from Leigh Miners car park.
Not something you see every day!
This, combined with the broken lift bridge at Plank Lane resulted in this area being really quite busy. C&RT staff are currently opening the bridge at 2pm daily until it is repaired so we have had lines of boats queuing up daily, making us boaters even more popular with motorists - not!
Well we joined the queue heading for Wigan ourselves a couple of days ago and will be enjoying the start of autumn in west Lancashire, probably getting no further than Burscough before heading back towards Leigh. "Why not head into Scarisbrick Marina?" I hear you say (that's if anyone actually reads this!). Because we are staying out all winter, that's why 😰.
We felt trapped in the marina last winter so are going to give it a shot toughing it out on the towpath. The wood burner has been blacked and the first logs chopped down so we can start off with a smaller fire as summer draws to a close. We can't wait to experience a hopefully glorious autumn before facing up to winter, though we haven't ruled out a few days in the sun if it gets too cold!
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