Hello and welcome back to my Blog 😊.

Today myself and Angela enjoyed a 7-mile walk along the Bridgewater Canal. It was a lovely sunny day and chillier than recent days. We parked in Dunham Park car park and headed out on our sunny walk. We had a spring in our step.

There were quite a few people about in the park taking advantage of a nice day. Passing the stable block and old mill building we headed towards the Bridgewater canal.

We noted that the water wheel for the mill was turning and that there were tours around the mill in the afternoon – we will do that sometime.

Arriving on to the towpath the sun went in – I wondered whether it was anything to do with Angela putting her sunglasses on 😊.

The towpath was quiet and as we walked along we spotted a heron sat there.

Surprisingly, it let us get quite close before flying off. It was great to see it.

Continuing along we passed a few narrowboats that were moored up and a tent where someone was living (and has been for a while). I can think of worse places to pitch a tent.

We passed over and under a number of bridges some of which I admired.

As we neared Oldfield Brow we passed a small Marina and then, further on, a nice piece of old engineering – a crane for lifting stop planks into the canal.

At this point we turned around and walked back the way we had come. We met Mr Heron again who continued to delight us with his flights along the canal. The sky was getting blacker as we walked along the canal – thankfully it didn’t rain. We left the towpath and entered Dunham Park along a tree lined avenue.

We headed for a well deserved coffee.

Happy Walking! 😊🚶‍♂️