Hi. We are Elliott & Sue, on narrowboat JOSH setting off on an exciting adventure on the canals and rivers of the UK. We're new to boating so there will be plenty of thrills and spills and MUCH to learn!
We start our epic journey on the River Thames before joining the canal network at Oxford. We'd love for you to come along and join us as we make mistakes, laugh, learn and cry, and tell things exactly as they are!
Please support our channel by subscribing and we'll be sure to post weekly videos of our epic journey on KZread. We hope to see you there.
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We are wondering if you are both ok or just still busy working any way just tc thinking of you the oldies 🤗🤗👍👍
Nice video except that Tunnel Exit, poor you you must have been Stressed not being able to move and all on your own as well with no one else around. Just one thing I did find it a bit difficult to make out your words at times because the volume was a little low owing to the engine. But I did enjoy it 😋
This is what doesn't happen when we pay our fishing licence's, the syndicate who control a particular stretch of water doesnt bother to keep it clean! Also the people who manage the waterways are a disgrace!
betwixt hill and dale, a golden river flows and ebbs on the spring winds. - behold - the common brook shrew and the vole dance with the devil
Ring up Inland Waterways and tell them about the problems, maybe [or not] they will send some workers out to clean it up.
I'm 68 now and remember when the River Ribble was still being dredged to keep it navigable for the ships going into the Docks. The silt and sand was piled up on the banks further down towards the estuary. It was called little Blackpool because of the sand. I've had walks down there with my Grandad. He once found a fisherman's chest and took it to the Dock master office to claim the salvage. Further up towards the dock itself were the remains of concrete boats which were built as experiments during the first world war. Russian timber ships would dock and it was possible to buy russian vodka. As the sailors weren't allowed off the ship they would lower bottles down in baskets the recipient would test the quality by lighting to check the colour of the flame and when happy take the bottle and put the agreed money in the basket. New Years was special all the ships would have Xmas trees on top of their masts and at the stroke of midnight the hooters would sound. It's all gone now and just memories.
sunday jul3rd 2022 preston brook 8am - Wigan, poolstock 9pm with a loo stop at trafford park
Nice - good work!!
Your scaring the fish away from the fisher men and women who will have nothing to eat tonight !!! 😂
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No vlogs so I am unsubscribing. South Carolina
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KZread isn't sending me notifications of your latest blogs despite being subscribed and belled I don't know if anyone else has been experiencing this problem ?
Thanks for letting us know Nathan. We have heard of another person having a similar issue but it sounds an isolated thing from what we have heard?
Big woof woof eh.. 😋 Too big for the boat.. 😅
Just a bit Kev !!!
Stunning footage once more Elliot
Thanks David 👍
Hi Elliott, hi Sue What an adorable couple of alpacas. Where did you guys find them? Mark Alberta, Canada
They were stunning Mark. So soft to the touch and adorable faces!!
Hi nice to see you were is Sue? Have you stopped doing vlogs now?
Sue was working that day. Not stopping the blogs but we have to warn some money to keep e things going and KZread ad revenue doesn’t cut it 🤣🤣
wow, worth watching you get bored . I live on Wash and can stand on marsh and see nothing of turning tide, then you turn and water is creeping up all around. |t makes such lovely patterns and mini waves. one of your shots looked like the surface of the moon under the water. just lovely drone footage.
Thanks Tessa! 👍 I bet watching the tide on the wash is a real treat? This River Ribble episode has really got me interested in the whole tidal thing, so much so I think we’ll have to search out other places to experience it. One of our lovely watchers has already given us a few ideas of places not too far away from where we currently are to watch from. As we bop around the country we can fine more! Result 🕺🏽💃
The wonders of nature, 🙂I'm down on the South Oxford, just having an easy afternoon and trying to catch up.
Hi K - what a lovely part of the world - Enjoy!!!!!
To say Preston was once a thriving commercial port. For the last twenty years, perhaps thirty years or more, since the port closed and the dredging stopped, the Ribble has been an awful navigation. That's not by any means to say I didn't appreciate your presentation.
Thanks Teddy 👍
Nice to see this video. I did not know that this river experienced a tidal bore. I guess the Severn Bore makes for more spectacular filming due to the wave size and speed, but this one probably has much fewer people ever filming it. Maybe you could film the Severn Bore while surfing it sometime ;) ;) ;)
That would be a great thing to witness!!! I definitely enjoyed the Ribble though and watching the swell come in. Might have to watch it again some time!!
@@NarrowEscape1 Such things are impossible to tire of. The sights and smells of a tidal river may not be quite the stuff that people want as a perfume, but they are something you easily get addicted to.
Must have missed an episode, didn’t know you had arrive on Lancaster Canal
Have a nosey at our How to Guide on the Ribble Link 👍
Great video mate the drome footage was awesome take care both of you x 😊
Thanks David 👍 Hope you’re well?
Wow Elliott, that was amazing!!! All that nothing time, but then, with the tide came in ... brilliant! Thank you for all the hours of boredom (at times) spent to be able to show such a wonderful natural event like a tide coming in, and coming in with gusto! Greetings from half a world away.
Thanks very much for that 👍👍😎 We’re glad you enjoyed it from afar 🕺🏽
That was interesting,,,,,,,thank you young fella!
Thanks Ian. Hope all is well with you guys?
Thanks Elliott. That was interesting, with some very nice drone footage.
Thanks for that Neil 👍
It was interesting to see that they were releasing water from Preston Dock (at the end of the video). Some good places to watch the tide coming in are: Freckleton Naze: This is at the corner of Freckleton Creek, opposite Astland Lamp and the River Douglas. There is a14m trig point and you are high up. There's a couple of benches there. Walk out there on the Lancashire Coastal Way from Freckleton Boat Yard or the Ship PH. Lytham (not St Annes!): Probably the best place to see the bore is at the west end of The Green (100m grass strip alongside the promenade). This is where there is spot where inshore fishermen launch. The tractors to tow the boats out are there. They drive down a natural cobbled 'road' that goes 45 degrees towards the sea (R).When a big tide comes in. It usually forms a standing bore wave as it tries to cross this 'road'. Also, about 1/3mile upstream, quite near the Windmill, there is a wooden jetty for the lifeboat and the sailing club to launch. You can walk right down this to be very close to the water at low tide. This gives the opportunity of a water level view of the tide coming in. You can walk back in as it floods the jetty.
Thanks Nick. That’s some fantastic info there!!! Might need to carve a little time out and go and check out these places. Is Lytham in a no fly zone for drones (I’ll check that out) but it would be great to see it whatever the circumstances because the tide coming in like this is almost ‘majestic’ if that doesn’t sound soppy wouldn’t you agree?
@@NarrowEscape1 I don't know the rules about drone flying I'm afraid. On the one hand you would be flying over the water which only has a bit of recreational use. But the two spots at Lytham are probably on the flight line from BAE at Warton. Freckleton spot is off the line but only about 1/3 mile to the side of the runway.
Elliott, that drone shot was incredible. I have only seen water move like that once before and that was at the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. Mark Alberta, Canada
Thanks Mark. Bay of Fundy - that’s a new one we will need to have a Google of 👍
Hi Elliott, Sue and Josh, Elliott you mentioned smelling the sea. On my journey around Britain one of the things that I was attempting to find was a childhood memory. That memory was the "smell of the sea". This smell is a bouquet of smells pulled together into one. I did not find it in Hastings, nor Yarmouth, very faint in Cromer and Colchester area. Where I did find it was on the west coast of north Wales and in Portsmouth. I challenge you to explain this. Why the south and west coasts. In my childhood I was in Lyme Regis and in 2019 I was in Lyme. Both times the smell of the sea was prevalent. Mark Alberta, Canada
Hi Mark Well the smell was certainly strong when I got there and all the silt was exposed. I don’t know why but I wasn’t expecting it although I had made sure I hadn’t looked on line at all to pre-empt what I might see because I wanted to enjoy the surprise! Ps are you back home now or still in Blighty or Bratislava did you say you were going?
Hi Elliott, Yes I am back in Canada. I spent a week in Slovenia and then flew back to Britain. The journey in Britain took me to London, Hastings, Colchester, Norwich, Wales and Portsmouth. Thoroughly enjoyed the journey and got to meet many who made me feel most welcomed. England is still home for me and the Slovenes and British made me feel very welcomed. Mark Alberta, Canada@@NarrowEscape1
Well done Elliot very interesting tc now the oldies 👍
Thanks you two!!
Great video, loved it.
Thanks for that 👍
Thanks for that Elliott it was so cool to see. Sorry you had such a long wait for its arrival 😂
Thanks Paul. At least the weather was on my side! 👍
Nice 1 Elliot…
Thanks for that 👍
What an interesting walk about!
Thanks for that!
Very nice video Elliott
Cheers Gary. It was a glorious morning!
Hi Elliot to get to see tidal bores etc you need to be there for High Water Springs or H.W. S. it is nothing to do with the seasons, the word Springs is that the water spring UP ,and Down. Cheers
Thanks for that Ramsey - every day is a learning day!!!
Oh wow, I could sit there until it got dark 👍
Absolutely Paul - we watched that view and the sunlight changing for hours!! 👍
Nice so peaceful no traaaaiiins or car noise. I draw a line at crows though lol. Hope you're both well.. ❤
🤣 crows are noisy aren’t they. A lovely scene though Kev 👍
Bliss
It was indeed 👍
A fully grown man on a scooter is the most cringe thing ever!
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Bro does not have a ticket for that ride
😀 we’ve got a stowaway…!
Great to see but not my favourite bunch of birds when I'm paddling my kayak. You'll see in my youtube videos I put SWAN HELP when I spot em. They don't like me much. Caught some on my video uploaded yesterday swimming at Rose Narrowboats lovely to see as long as they stay away.
They are lovely creatures as you say Kev, until they get territorial then they sort of turn loopy!! Lovely and graceful to watch from the boat though but then our sides are a bit taller than yours…🤣🤣
Oh. That's so great to see. Thanks for sharing. ATB.
You’re most welcome Yvonne!
Great music! Is there any link between this and the Channel 4 programme?
Hi there. There’s no link other than they nicked our name!! 🤣
@@NarrowEscape1 Rascals! Hopefully it's driven up your traffic!
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Thanks 👍
Hello guys! Just watching the crossing of the Ribble Link! So exciting!! Now take Josh out there!
Thanks!! That would be a great adventure. It’s on the ‘to do’ list for another time 👍
I would not go on a river the ⛵🚢 are not made for ▶️ rivers , that is why you go in twos
There’s no reason this journey can’t, and shouldn’t, be made as long as people take care in preparing themselves and their craft. It’s a privilege and a joy to do it and I urge anyone tempted to just do it whilst you can!!
Glad you enjoyed it Elliott, I'n on Sue's side in that I'm happy to watch someone else travelling it
👍👍 thanks Gary.
Hi Elliott, What a journey you have just experienced. I have watched others negotiate the Ribble and yours appeared to be the smoothest. Maybe that is because Narrowboat Raggedy Ann had two VERY experienced boaters on hand. Thank you Elliott, Mark Alberta, Canada (currently in Portsmouth)
Hi Mark - thanks for that. I think we were a touch lucky on the weather but then I saw a boat go through a couple of days later and they have NO wind and hardly any waves so they got it even easier! Personally I think Raggedy Ann and Gerald just made it look smooth 👍 Enjoy Portsmouth!
Well done. Keep on cruising.
Thanks Peter!