16 August. We google Mapped the Ribble Link last night and found a different way to approach the basin. So set out, by car, at 8 this morning to search out the route. Took just half an hour to find. Parking about 20yds from the basin, and it is in a pleasant area. So no problems for the 22nd and the trip down with the owners.
By 10 we were on our way north by boat, heading for Lancaster. Well, made Lancaster so quickly that we headed on and are now stopped at Hest Bank between bridges 116 and 117. (About 2 miles north of Morecombe. We had a wander down to the beach(!), well miles and miles of open expanses of sand banks. Nice ice cream on the way down, only to find an Old Codgers cafe right on the edge of the foreshore. Have attached some piccies of the journey up. The second photo shows a CaraBoat. (It looks like a caravan superimposed on a barge.) You might notice some rain-drops on the lens. Chris decided that when it rains her place is in the covered front of the boat making sure that we don't hit anything. (Well that's her story.) I just put on the full wet weather gear and carried on. Time for dinner.