Near Aqueduct Marina

Our journey along the Middlewich Branch was happily uneventful and sunny. We moored just before Aqueduct Marina on the opposite side of the cut. There was a lovely wide grassy area with picnic benches and bbq stands. Squirrels foraged amongst fallen oak leaves right outside our windows.

Aqueduct Marina doesn't have a good reputation so it didn't surprise us when we got chatting to the boat owner moored ahead. She was painting the hull with blacking. She'd asked the marina to do it when they were having a second attempt at repainting her boat. They'd forgotten so they gave her half a tin of blacking 'for free'. Needless to say we won't be dropping in if Rainboat needs work!Read more