Witchy & Foxy's October Adventure - part 1
Oct 28, 2016 14:17:40 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 28, 2016 14:17:40 GMT
Swanley Marina to Wrenbury and Whitchurch
My brother always says there’s nothing worse than looking at other peoples’ holiday photos. So I am slapping ours up here to give you all some grief!
I quite like this photo-journalism lark, I’ve always had an interest in photography, and writing about things pushes me into having to do some more research and finding out new things for myself, so it’s nice to combine the two whilst sipping a small glass of single malt at home.
These are just our latest holiday snaps in chronological order, but they may be of interest for anyone who hasn’t yet cruised or walked along the Llangollen Canal, and, although a miriad of Youtube clips and piccies about this favourite canal exist, the photos that appear here are all fresh, taken between October 15-22 2016.
On clicking the links and seeing all the photos appear at once, I would urge you to click on the first photo to enlarge it, and click the little i (information) sign top right for the text I have added to appear. Then you may click the forwards arrow to continue to the next photo, or use your keyboard arrow buttons (and the text should appear with every photo).
In August we had dumped our floating skip NB Witchy & Foxy at Swanley, on the Llangollen Canal just to the west of Nantwich, in Cheshire. We returned Saturday 15th October to find all OK. This meant us leaving home 2am British time from home in Finland to Helsinki airport, and arriving 8pm in the dark at the boat. The car drive to Helsinki is 8 hours. Finnair flies direct to Manchester. Then by trains, changing at Crewe for Nantwich, and for the final leg of 3 miles, a taxi.
The first thing was to take the bag off the chimney and get the stove alight with kindling, logs and coal and a splash of methylated spirits, and send a plume of filthy, choking smoke in the direction of Russia!
There was some water on the floor of the engine room but this turned out to be from condensation, we could see drops running down the sides. With that mopped up and the engine starting on the first crank (as always), we went through our on-board food stores list and updated it, the aim being to consume the older items this trip and save some money. We were away by Sunday lunchtime to our first overnight stop in Wrenbury.
Monday was ’the day of the ten locks’ – if you count the chambers of the Grindley Brook staircase as three – and we pulled into Whitchurch visitor moorings as dusk was gathering, and walked into town to Tesco’s along the footpath which follows the line of the old canal branch which has been filled in.
At one of the Grindley Brook locks I had the idea to put the camera on the tripod and set it to ’interval shooting’ where a frame is captured, in this case, every 30 seconds and I include this series of photos as a seperate ’album’. Perhaps it’ll give someone the gist of what locks are all about.
(Edited March 2018 - photos now gone from my Google Photos account, so have removed links - which thus lead to nowhere - from here). (Summer 2017 photos still available - 'Witchy & Foxy Up North')
My brother always says there’s nothing worse than looking at other peoples’ holiday photos. So I am slapping ours up here to give you all some grief!
I quite like this photo-journalism lark, I’ve always had an interest in photography, and writing about things pushes me into having to do some more research and finding out new things for myself, so it’s nice to combine the two whilst sipping a small glass of single malt at home.
These are just our latest holiday snaps in chronological order, but they may be of interest for anyone who hasn’t yet cruised or walked along the Llangollen Canal, and, although a miriad of Youtube clips and piccies about this favourite canal exist, the photos that appear here are all fresh, taken between October 15-22 2016.
On clicking the links and seeing all the photos appear at once, I would urge you to click on the first photo to enlarge it, and click the little i (information) sign top right for the text I have added to appear. Then you may click the forwards arrow to continue to the next photo, or use your keyboard arrow buttons (and the text should appear with every photo).
In August we had dumped our floating skip NB Witchy & Foxy at Swanley, on the Llangollen Canal just to the west of Nantwich, in Cheshire. We returned Saturday 15th October to find all OK. This meant us leaving home 2am British time from home in Finland to Helsinki airport, and arriving 8pm in the dark at the boat. The car drive to Helsinki is 8 hours. Finnair flies direct to Manchester. Then by trains, changing at Crewe for Nantwich, and for the final leg of 3 miles, a taxi.
The first thing was to take the bag off the chimney and get the stove alight with kindling, logs and coal and a splash of methylated spirits, and send a plume of filthy, choking smoke in the direction of Russia!
There was some water on the floor of the engine room but this turned out to be from condensation, we could see drops running down the sides. With that mopped up and the engine starting on the first crank (as always), we went through our on-board food stores list and updated it, the aim being to consume the older items this trip and save some money. We were away by Sunday lunchtime to our first overnight stop in Wrenbury.
Monday was ’the day of the ten locks’ – if you count the chambers of the Grindley Brook staircase as three – and we pulled into Whitchurch visitor moorings as dusk was gathering, and walked into town to Tesco’s along the footpath which follows the line of the old canal branch which has been filled in.
At one of the Grindley Brook locks I had the idea to put the camera on the tripod and set it to ’interval shooting’ where a frame is captured, in this case, every 30 seconds and I include this series of photos as a seperate ’album’. Perhaps it’ll give someone the gist of what locks are all about.
(Edited March 2018 - photos now gone from my Google Photos account, so have removed links - which thus lead to nowhere - from here). (Summer 2017 photos still available - 'Witchy & Foxy Up North')
