Lemonroyd Marina, Aire and Calder Navigation to Beal Lock, River Aire
Hi everybody, we are back afloat and today we have been cruising with the big boys!
See the pics as we were overtaken and passed by tankers and sand barges on the river Aire! they don't hang about. Time means money. We were thankful to overhear the conversations about approaching vessels over the VHF radio.
We moved down towards Ferrybridge and skirted around the tall cooling towers, passing defunct colliery basins, industrial sites and proceeding on through Ferrybridge flood lock, we have looked down on many a time from the A1M. Much of the old NCB lland around has become RSPB wetlands, but you can see that the land was heavily mined, and there are many huge barges laid up.
We are now moored at Beal Lock, within sight of Eggborough power station cooling towers We have booked our passage through the Selby tidal lock, for Saturday morning. The lock keeper there works his hours around the tidal fluctuations, and has indicated that low tide will be around 9am, so we will need to be ready on time.
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