{"id":2909,"date":"2019-06-23T20:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T19:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T19:42:27","slug":"day-43-fit-for-twits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"Day 43 &#8211; Fit For Twits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We left our pleasant mooring just after Rakes Head Bridge, near Hest Bank just before 9 am this morning with a well researched plan to meet up with Sarah near Borwick Hall where the guide showed some good moorings.&nbsp; Unfortunately, as we all know, the best laid plans \u2026.ugh!&nbsp; The indicated moorings were fine if you had a draft of only a few inches or a very sloping side.&nbsp; Not much cop however for a narrow boat.&nbsp; After several attempts we were forced to give up.&nbsp; Unfortunately the visitor mooring as Tewitfield were no better.&nbsp; We ended up on the mooring for the services but as far back as we could possibly get so another boat could get in and use the facilities.&nbsp; Not a choice we would ever normally make.&nbsp; The other downside was that this mooring is only about 25 metres from the M6.&nbsp; We are however within inches of the furthest possible point of navigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journey to get here was fairly uneventful and unspectacular so we have a great paucity of pictures.&nbsp; We filled up with water at Carnforth where in spite of the door clearly showing a pumpout symbol there is NO pumpout.&nbsp; The sides of the canal are very shallow in places and the sharp left hand bend (travelling north) just before Borwick could be particularly tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After we had moored and met Sarah we went for a walk about and discovered an interesting local farm shop, wine store, butchers general provisions, plants, chocolates just opposite the Longlands Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We walked along the towpath to have a look at the old disused locks leading to Kendal and we were surprised to see how much water is flowing down and must be running past Oliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Trying To Catch Another One<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul 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href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2904\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2904\" class=\"wp-image-2904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-4.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2905\" data-link=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?attachment_id=2905\" class=\"wp-image-2905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-5.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-5-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-3-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Memories Of Dowley Gap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ramblingsheep has rambled on for several days and is now signing off and leaving future blogs to Toby and Sarah.  Thank you for viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left our pleasant mooring just after Rakes Head Bridge, near Hest Bank just before 9 am this morning with a well researched plan to meet up with Sarah near Borwick Hall where the guide showed some good moorings.&nbsp; Unfortunately, as we all know, the best laid plans \u2026.ugh!&nbsp; The indicated moorings were fine if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 43 &#8211; Fit For Twits<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-grand-tour","tag-lancaster-canal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tewitfield-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-KV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}