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Thursday 10 May 2018

On the move again to pastures new.

We are back on the boat after a week at home for several things. We arrived about 1230 and after unpacking the car, and packing the boat, getting everything ready, as well as a spot of lunch, we head out of the marina to the northern reaches of the canal system.

 As we maneuvered through the marina I spied this boat so had to take a snap.

We are heading right and north again as we leave the Garstang Marina.

At Nateby Hall Bridge the sun and the trees make for a good picture.

A couple of swans were hidden in the long pasture and then every now and then their heads popped up.

There were common terns standing on the fence posts too.

We also saw our first set of cygnets.

At Ratcliffe Wharf Crocodile Dundee was watching the world go by.

The sun was lovely but the wind once again had a chill in it and we were well wrapped up. But the light on the new leaves of the trees looked great.

We reached the junction with the Glasson Dock Arm and so we were now once again on new ground.

The skies were blue and the views were tantalizing towards the hills in land and the lakes across Morecambe Bay.

There are several long cuttings that were in dappled shade and so were quite cool. The ransom's of wild garlic were really abundant and as the wind didn't penetrate the glades so the smell was really heady. 

I was very surprised to see this turtle/terrapin hauled out on a root soaking up the sun. It was about 8" across, so quite a size.

The cuttings meant that there was a need for a higher bridge. It was quite strange to see as there isn't that much variation in them, until now.

Building a patio area over the canal has been taken to a great heights in some gardens, but on the approach to Lancaster is was this boat house that caught my eye.

A little further on was a second boat house which I liked even better.

We moored at the first visitor moorings that just happen to be next to the Water Witch pub, that was named after a packet boat that worked up the Lancaster Canal in the past.

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