18th June 2013 - Heaton's Bridge to Aintree

Today we must move up closer to Liverpool.  We have to be at bridge No9, next to Aintree racecourse at 9am tomorrow morning to meet up with the CRT chaps who will conduct us through to the city centre.

Other boats clearly are doing the same thing - we were awoken by 4 boats going by at the crack of sparrows - and pulling out our mooring pins yet again. To be fair I had put them in quite quickly yesterday.

It was a lovely warm day, mostly sunny and lovely countryside.  Swing bridges kept appearing - all with different modes of operation just to keep you on your toes.  At bridge 10 we found several boats ready to move into Liverpool tomorrow, along with several who had just come out.  Their departure had been delayed for a day because of the 'yellow duck' incident when a WW2 amphibious vehicle full of tourists had sunk right next to where we will be mooring.  We parked up temporarily and cycled to bridge 9 to check it out - deciding to move the boat up.

Moored behind Nb Meander and were promptly invited to a glass of wine and a chat....which went on most of the evening!

Mooring at Heaton's Bridge