On the way to York

We left Doncaster on Tuesday a week ago today. After a brief cruise we moored at Long Sandall Lock to have coffee. Very glad we did as following us was this big oil

Big boat, makes lock look small.

tanker. We were more than happy to watch it go through the lock and carry on ahead of us!
Not much commercial traffic on the waterway these days so it was good to see a ship in action.  We carried on that day for another 5 swing/lift bridges and one lock. Although along this stretch most are electrically operated so I just have to push a button! ? This took us off of the South Yorkshire Navigation and on to the

Guillotine gates either side of the aqueduct.

New Junction Canal. This picture is of the aqueduct near the start with the guillotine gates a either end to seal it. Thankfully these are left open.
This is only a short  canal, so Wednesday saw us join the Aire and Calder Navigation arriving at Goole later that day. Wednesday evening we had a totally unexpected visit from Adrian and Sarah. Some friends we made when we last visited Stafford Boat Club. They live in Leeds and had picked up from the blog that we were heading their way. So they drove over to see us. Hopefully we will see them again in the coming weeks as we will eventually head towards Leeds.

Waterways Museum at Goole

We spent a couple of pleasant days at Goole. The docks here are run by Associated British Ports and there are ships of all shapes and sizes! We also visited the Waterways Museum, very interesting, and I did some washing and was able to peg out!
We left Goole on Saturday making our way back on the Aire and Calder on past the point we joined it. This morning we have turned on to the Selby Canal, I will let you guess where that leads! Tomorrow we plan to head out of Selby Lock on to the River Ouse to York.