Two Lakes, Two Boat Houses and a Sheep

After a very frustrating five months due to health issues which forced me to miss a much anticipated family holiday to the Lake District we booked a short three night stay in southern Eryri National Park back in May. We visited a number of places including Llynnau Cregennen, Fairbourne and Barmouth.

Llynnau Cregennen has been on my list of places to visit for many years but we always seem to run out of time on the way up to or back from Eryri, so many amazing places to explore. The lakes and land are managed by the National Trust and sit in the shadow of the northern slopes of Cadair Idris. This ancient landscape is said to revel over 4000 years of human presents.

On leaving the main car park the sun disappeared and the clagg started to roll in incredibly fast, we spent the next hour with limited visibility (so much for the views). On arriving at the smaller lake we had a sudden break in the clagg so we took the opportunity to stop for the all in important snacks and I reached for the camera and grabbed a few shots of a boat house I didn’t realise existed (only seen photos of the boat house on the larger lake).

The rest of the walk followed a similar theme, clagg blows in, clagg clears and repeat….. On returning to the main car park the clagg finally cleared for good and the family patiently sat around taking in the views while I tried to photograph the main boat house. I did struggle to find a composition I was happy with as nothing seem to work for a number of reasons so opted to use out of focus grass, keeping it simple.

Would love to return to this location at difference times throughout the year as it has so much to offer.

EQUIPMENT

Olympus OMD-1 Markii

Olympus 12-40mm F4 Pro Lens

Kase Filter polariser

HOW TO GET THERE

Llynnau Cregennen is located above the village of Arthog which is approx six miles from Dolgellau. The single track road (with passing places) is fairly steep in places with a number of gates to open and close.

Postcode LL39 1LJ

PARKING

As this is a National Trust car park charges apply to non members, members can scan their membership cards.

At the time of visiting the parking charge was £5 all day.

The Boat House I didn’t realise existed on the Smaller Lake

Boat House on the Large Lake (next to main Car Park)

Mummy sheep watching walk by