One happy fisherman, one miserable fisherman!

Today is a tale of 2 fishermen. It all began a while back on the Trent and Mersey when we found a fishing rod caught up in the bushes. Much revving of engines later and we pulled it out, complete with reel and line attached and working. It has been on the roof ever since looking for an appropriate benefactor. Today, we found one. Two kids sitting in a slummy estate that we passed through with only one rod between them. A quick shout established that the standing boy didn't have his own rod so we grabbed it from the roof and passed it to him - he was a very happy fisherman!

Now the miserable ones. Again, kids. This time sitting by the canal at the end of their park fishing. We slowed down for them and the boy asked ever so politely if we could slow down please. Being a polite request, we obliged at which point his mate asked if we could stop the engine please! We told them not to push it and informed them that we had actually slowed down for them anyway at which, sour faced they glared and continued their fishing - ah well, you can't please them all!

I have posted a picture of our trip through Chester this afternoon.

Moored up this morning just before Chester and took the Park and Ride into the city to treat myself to a new camera. I am now the proud owner of a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ8!

Had a walk around the fascinating city of Chester before returning back to the boat and moving on through the very delapidated staircase locks at the far end of the city. Two people now have questioned our reasoning as to why we want to push through to Ellesmere Port. Tomorrow, we hope to drop into the basin at the end, visit the museum and then return back somewhere for the night before beginning the south-bound trip back.

Our evenings mooring tonight!

....and a nice bladeful from the weed hatch this evening too!!