The trip through the tunnel was VERY wet. Well it would be after all the rain we'd had over night. We also needed coal and at the exit of the tunnel, the nice BW guy Dave, told us where we could get solid fuel and also diesel at 85p Ltr. So with a stop at the boatyard just before the junction, we loaded the boat up with another 6 bags of coal. ( At £6.50 a bag it was worth getting.) and then turned sharp left onto the Maccelsfield. At the first convenient mooring we stopped to go to Tesco and with a shopping list as long as your arm, it took several trips to get all our stuff back to the boat.( I blamed Ian's beer but he was convinced it was the wine cartons that did it.) I didn't fancy staying on our mooring over night. It was to near the road and the railway was about 50 yds away so we set of to find a rural mooring. Okay the Mac is very rural and there appeared to be loads of excellent moorings, piled edges and good towpath, but every time we tried to get into the side we hit mud. After attempting to moor up about 6 times I began to despair. I had visions of throwing out our mud weights and settling for the night in the middle of the canal. We eventually found a 48hr mooring that wasn't taken up by other boats and with a sigh of relieve stopped for the night. A fellow boater told us that most of the Mac is shallow so we are in for an interesting few days.
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