Leaving the Selby Canal

In the end we didn't leave Selby on Friday. Our friends Dave and Jan on Yesdear arrived so we stayed put!

Moored at West Haddeslesey Lock overnight

Spending a very pleasant evening on Friday on their boat.

Saturday started with thunderstorms, which Paul managed to sleep through. Once the rain stopped both us and Yesdear moved on together, with the added bonus of a boater coming the other way operating the swing bridge for us!

This time Dave and Jan came on our boat and more wine was consumed!

Just moored for the night at Knottingly when this went by!

On Sunday Yesdear moved off ahead of us as they are heading towards Goole so we are unlikely to meet up with them again for a while.

The picture above is the end of the Selby Canal. West Haddeslesey is a flood lock and when we went down a couple of weeks ago the gates were open, but following the rain over the weekend the gates had been closed. So today we have worked through 3 locks and are now back on the Aire and Calder. This navigation is part canal and part river. Found a nice mooring just in time! We are again back on water we have not previously travelled. Heading towards Dewsbury.