High Peak Trail & Cromford Canal

All 4 of us again today and we met up at 06:00 as usual but because of the threat of torrential rain we thought we would stay local. We parked up at Intake Lane in Cromford and walked up to meet the High Peak Trail. We walked onto the Sheep Pasture Incline, past the old Derrick in the quarry and past the run off pit then down to the High Peak Junction. We walked along the canal and stopped at the pack horse bridge where we found a lovely seat for our breakfast. Just before we got to the bridge our Rob spotted a bouquet of flowers in the canal and he fished them out. As it was Ike's wedding anniversary he offered them to Ike to give to Angela, the reply is not printable. Anyway after our breakfast we headed off towards the Cromford Mill complex and we spotted a water vole but to quick for me to photo him. We had a wander around the mill yard and it started to rain, that's when we thought that's enough for the day and it was off to the car and back home.

Trip around Cromford Canal

Spotted this lovely car mascot on Intake Lane

Top of Intake Lane

Tunnel under the Sheep Pasture Incline

Old derrick in the quarry

Symbol fixed to the rock wall 

Symbol position on rock wall

Young Christmas tree's

Waggon Run Off catch pit

Catch pit still got an old waggon in there.

Light at the end of the tunnel

Wheel at the bottom of the incline

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Cromford Canal

High Peak Junction

A Little Grebe

Rob, Geoff & Ike

A dinosaur on the banks of Cromford Canal

Rob, Geoff & Ike with those flowers.

Cromford Wharf

Rob on his barge

Beware of pirates

Cromford mill complex

Sir Richard Arkwright with Geoff

Me & Sir Rich

Pirates

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Undershot & overshot water wheels

Overshot water wheel

Help I'm trapped

Part of the historic complex

 Just a short but pleasant walk with just the last part with rain. Ive never seen the waggon catch pit before so that was a first.
See you next week.