Day 13: Back onto the Middlewich and more queue's.

29th August. Through Wrenbury lift bridge with 3 other boats in convoy. We were 3rd. A strange thing happened after the next manual lift bridge. The guy in the lead boat, got through this lift bridge and then proceeded to close it! We were not far behind him but he closed it and was on his way? The rest of us could not believe it. The boat in front of me went through and decided to stop. I soon caught up the boater who had closed the bridge in front of us at the next lock. When asked why he closed the bridge, all he could say was that in the past it had been left open. But 3 boats were directly behind him? My thinking is that he did not want to loose his place in the queue's at the next lock. Fool!

Anyway, we swiftly moved down the canal, up the Shroppie and back into the Middlewich at Barbridge junction. An evening mooring once again in open countryside near bridge 16 was delightful.