Boatdate: 08072020
Location: Tarleton

Pretty tired after the crossing yesterday so in no rush this morning and we have three days before we are due in Salthouse Docks, Liverpool. However, we do need a pump out and to bunker some water as I ran a fair bit off during the crossing. Mid morning then we head of to the services at Sparks bridge a short way down the Rufford branch. There's very little moving along this part of the canal and we only encounter one or two other boats so we spend an hour or so pumping out and filling the water tank and having showers while Ben makes us all breakfast.

Carrying on towards Burscough we bump into Stuart and Carol who were our neighbours on the Lancaster Canal for a lot of the lockdown. It's a timely meeting as we can continue up the canal sharing the locks and reducing the workload for everyone as some of those locks are hard going.  Fortunately some work has been done on the swing bridge at the top junction which is much easier to move than it was the last time we were through this way.