{"id":71400,"date":"2026-05-08T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71400"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:51:06","slug":"cregennan-lakes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/05\/cregennan-lakes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cregennan Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Landscape<br \/>\nHere, around these parts<br \/>\nAre  breathtakingly fine<br \/>\nBoth Cregennan Lakes<br \/>\nFor all our sakes<br \/>\nAre scenically divine<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievable Mountain vistas<br \/>\nWondrous lakes of myriad blues<br \/>\nBrown trout Blue and Rainbow Trout<br \/>\nAnd absolutely  inspiring views<\/p>\n<p>The estuary of Mawddach<br \/>\nThe Arthrog Valley Bog<br \/>\nCadair Idris stands aloft<br \/>\nPlants and flowers forever soft<br \/>\nA picnic here a shortish walk<br \/>\nWhere sheep do baa and couples talk<\/p>\n<p>Wild flowers wave, life to the full<br \/>\nThis wonderful fusion, just  feel that pull<br \/>\nOn all our senses one has to say<br \/>\nFive miles from Home<br \/>\nOn a summers day<\/p>\n<p>Where Awelfa\u2019s real tranquility<br \/>\nIs A flowery hilltop certainly<br \/>\nSuggests the need<br \/>\nOnly five miles<br \/>\nAway from home<br \/>\nAnd  some avid smiles<\/p>\n<p>For Eryi stretches<br \/>\nNear and far<br \/>\nNarrow lanes<br \/>\nOf woodland, star<br \/>\nDolgellau\u2019s Stoney facing places<br \/>\nAnd of course so many faces<br \/>\nOf happiness and being where<br \/>\nSo much beauty that all can share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Landscape Here, around these parts Are breathtakingly fine Both Cregennan Lakes For all our sakes Are scenically divine Unbelievable Mountain vistas Wondrous lakes of myriad blues Brown trout Blue and Rainbow Trout And absolutely inspiring views The estuary of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/05\/cregennan-lakes-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,905,903,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-snowdonia","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71402,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71400\/revisions\/71402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}