Back to Marple

Densie on the Peak Forest Canal

We left Bugsworth at 9:20 and retraced our steps back to Marple. The weather was perfect - blue sky and a slight cooling breeze. Much less traffic today than Saturday - most visitors come for the weekend. The journey was superb and the lack of traffic gave us more chance to take some photos - today's picture shows a typical view of this canal.

Arriving back at Marple we wanted to moor for the rest of the day rather than immediately tackling the 16 lock Marple flight. Same problems as on Saturday - all the available moorings were too shallow for us to comfortably stay. If we could have got in at all, the boat would have been sloping at an awkward angle.

Fortunately one of the boats on one of the only 3 deep moorings moved off and we were able to get in - hooray!

This afternoon we walked into Marple to buy some food for one more day - we want to get into central Manchester without further shopping. The town is really a dormitory for Manchester and, apart from around the canal, there seems little evidence of the 18th/19th century. The centre has a good range of small shops, and except for a Coop, few chains.