I have done this walk several times before but there is
always something new to see – today was no exception. Walking along the canal at the first set of
locks there were several keepers working on the gates maintaining them and to
do that they had drained the canal just beyond.
It was really interesting to see the canal basin. It isn’t as deep as I thought it would be and the sides get shallower
and shallower up to the canal walls.
It did make the canal look a bit sad and bedraggled. As I walked around the ground was fairly damp under foot and as I turned back on the Pennine Way a couple coming towards me warned of the field ahead which had just been spread with slurry.
There little white dog had enjoyed it – it had rolled in it and looked like they would be very busy bathing it when they got home. Further along as I turned down the trakc to take me back towards Gargrave I came across a whole hedge of Blackthorn absolutely covered in Sloe berries.
Thank goodness I’d brought a plastic bag in my back pack. Within 20 minutes I’d picked 4.5lbs. What a good end to a 5 mile walk around Gargrave.
It did make the canal look a bit sad and bedraggled. As I walked around the ground was fairly damp under foot and as I turned back on the Pennine Way a couple coming towards me warned of the field ahead which had just been spread with slurry.
There little white dog had enjoyed it – it had rolled in it and looked like they would be very busy bathing it when they got home. Further along as I turned down the trakc to take me back towards Gargrave I came across a whole hedge of Blackthorn absolutely covered in Sloe berries.
Thank goodness I’d brought a plastic bag in my back pack. Within 20 minutes I’d picked 4.5lbs. What a good end to a 5 mile walk around Gargrave.
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