Bosley Lock Flight and Harecastle Tunnel

Last Nights Garden

We set off early again to negotiate the Bosley Flight.  The last time we were here was on the 1st May and it was hammering down!  This time it was dry, so far, and down hill, which I prefer.  I didn't have a chance to take any photos till we got to the bottom of the flight as it was so busy with boats moving up and down that every time we got to a lock it was either in our favour or being  crewed by another boat crew that were coming up.  It made what could have been a very hard flight, a very easy one.   The heavens started to open at Lock 11 and by the time we were through 12 they were fully operational!!
  

Not much room for error!!

This seemed the perfect time to stop for lunch and watch all the boaters heading for the very wet upwards flight we had just come down in the dry. 
Next we had the second half of the Macclesfield Canal towards the Harecastle Tunnel which for us marks the start of the Trent & Mersey leg of our journey.  We arrived there at 5pm and thought that we would have to stop for the night.  Luckily, they were still letting people through and we carried on and did the tunnel in 30mins!!  Yogi said after the Standedge, this one was an outright doddle.  (he didnt actually say doddle, am sure you can imagine his actual comment though!!) lol  
We carried on till 9pm that night I think, Yog had estimated 3 days to do the Macclesfield Canal and he had done it in 2.  As I mentioned before, Yogi is on a mission, one which I probably need to explain a bit to you.