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A Wheely Good Day

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We had a wheely good day today.

Setting off from Auchinstarry this morning we descended through the four locks at Castlecary and went under the Lifting Bridge at Bonnybridge.

Then the right turn at Falkirk and up the first lock into the basin below the wheel. Straight across the basin and into the Gondola alongside one of the trip boats. Although the trip boats are wide boats the Gondola is wide enough to hold us both.

Then the almost silent rotation as we ascend and the other Gondola descends with its equivalent weight of boats and water counterbalancing us.

Falkirk Wheel, viewed from below.

From the top of the wheel it’s just a short trip across the aqueduct and through the short new tunnel under the railway to the new staircase locks. Then along the new cut for about 1/2 mile before we joined the original Union Canal to head for Edinburgh.

We soon passed the end of the original link between the canals, but the line of locks is no longer visible, hidden under a modern housing estate.

Now we’re moored at Linlithgow, and we’ve just topped up our supplies at Tescos. Tomorrow we will head a little closer to Edinburgh.

Falkirk Wheel

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