We woke up to an overcast and slightly misty morning, with the forecast threatening lots of rain later.

We decided to make the most of the lighter rain early on so got going fully togged up in our wet gear and then set off. It wasn’t long before it the rain set in and by 10 am it was really going for it, so we took turns up on deck rather than both get wet at once. We should probably have got the brolly out a bit earlier, before Sarah was looking like a drowned rat, but we still kept smiling and at least it was still fairly warm.

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We passed some lovely well kept gardens; this little cottage was the winner of the day for us. I think they’d probably benefited from a bit of watering too, everything looked nice and lush.

The dogs certainly didn’t seem to mind a bit of water – well two of the three didn’t anyway, the third one seems a bit less sure!

We saw our second ‘Boaty McBoatFace’ of the trip today – this one nothing to do with the RRS Sir David Attenborough though!

We moored up at 11:35; typically the rain eased off after that, and the forecast thunder and lightning never happened so we should have just stayed in bed all morning and moved in the afternoon instead! Still, there were some heavy showers later and it was nice to be in the cozy warmth and dry of Oliver whilst it chucked it down.

We had some lovely bacon butties using the bacon from the Port of Lancaster smokehouse at Glasson. We both thought it was some of the best bacon we’ve ever had, absolutely scrummy.

Sarah then had an afternoon snooze whilst I read on my kindle and played some computer games. We’ve just had a lovely dinner of fajitas – though Sarah bought the extra hot ones by mistake so it was quite spicy!

Tomorrow looks like more rain, but no thunder or lightning forecast so hopefully it’s more a case of showers rather than downpours, and it’s only a short hop to Anderton.