Bit of a catch up here condensing two days into one. Nothing would upload to the Blogger site for a while through here.
As we began to work our way down the rest of the locks on this side of the tunnel, we were surrounded by people once again seemingly coming out of nowhere. There are eight people watching the water flow into this lock. As soon as we had worked through they moved onto the next one and watched the whole process again. A bit like the crowds moving from tee to tee on the golf course.
It was here that a couple armed with large cameras followed us down through nine locks taking pictures all the way. As it turned out photography is their new hobby and upon taking our email address they have promised to send us some photos.
A very modern, square and featureless tunnel here, back to the "storm drain" approach.
This is looking back after making the strangest approach to the last lock on the Huddersfield Narrow canal.
Chugging on the west side of the tunnel has taken us through some of the best canalscape that we have seen so far, although the canal is quite slow to work as the locks fill at their own pace (slightly faster than the Tectonic Plates) and the shallowness keeps the speed under two miles an hour, everything else is just perfect. Stone built houses and walls line the way where there are no trees to dapple the water with sunlight and...............get the picture?
One more quirky set of lock beams, these are in the closed position and only look normal when opened.
We have now turned onto the Lower Peak forest canal and are facing another flight of 16 locks in the morning,
so until tomorrow.......................
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