Canal cruisers.

Afternoon walk, trees beginning to turn. Water very calm, nice reflections.

“Cheers shouted the sailors.” They toasted us. They volunteered that they were really enjoying meeting folks in Scotland and that the canals were different; apparently the Scottish Lowland Canals are quite different from the canals typical of England and Wales. The Forth and Clyde canal is much wider than the average English canal, and the Union Canal , accessible in a mile from this photo via the Falkirk Wheel, is a contour canal which has no locks at all, or bridges that have to be opened.