Day 11: Queue's at the locks!

Day 11: 27th August. We were away at 10:00. We didn't want to get stuck on the narrow's and made good progress back to the Aquaduct. One boat ahead of us, and 2 behind us. I knew that the Aquaduct was a bottleneck and when we arrived, there were 2 day boats waiting to go over and in front of us was a nice narrowbeam white Dutch barge. The owner was keeping an eye out as 3 boats were coming over. I was just hoping that no other boat would enter the Aquaduct at the other side. The last boat was very slow - they were busy taking photographs!

Anyway, they left the aqueduct and it was like a Le-man start. White barge first, us, the 2 day boats and various other private boats in our wake's!

Quickly through Chirk tunnel and back out into the open countryside. Then we hit the first lock and a queue of 8 boats in front of us! It took us 2 hours to get through. Queue's at locks were to be very common on our return down the Llangollen.