Another wheely good day today.

We headed back down locks 20-17 and under Bonnybridge lifting bridge this morning. The last locks of this holiday, worked once again by cheerful and helpful British Waterways staff.

Turning right at the junction in Falkirk we went up the single lock into the basin where we were held briefly waiting for the previous rotation to complete.

One of the Seagull Trust boats emerged from the lower gondola and headed off to the pontoons on our right.

We were signalled into the lower gondola and one of the trip boats joined us. Then the near silent rotation to the upper position.

A short transit through the new tunnel and up the staircase locks brought us to the level of the Union Canal. This would take use all the way to Edinburgh but we have stopped near the Muiravonside Country Park for the evening.

Tomorrow we head back down the wheel to moor near the hire base ready to return our hire boat on Saturday morning.

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