The name of the destination may make it sound like I've left the country and gone to Cleveland, Ohio in the United States, but in fact the nature reserve is another one of those places just down the road which we'd never got round to visiting before!
However, like many of the other places in the Cotswold Water Park, it has scenery that, to me, is very reminiscent of the lakes you'd find in the U.S. or Canada.
I had read on the Cotswold Water Park website that otters live in the Cleveland Lakes, and I was really hoping to see one. Unfortunately, they seemed to be hiding yesterday, but we did see a beautiful swan!
After our walk by the lakes, we went to the nearby Jennie's Kitchen café, which I've previously written about on this blog. Sadly, the alpaca pictured with me outside the café in my Cotswold Water Park post has been moved to a different field, so I couldn't say hello to him this time. But it was still really nice to go there again for the first time since March, look at the flowers in the garden, and enjoy a vegan chocolate cheesecake!
All in all, it was a lovely morning. Even though I wish I was living in Chile right now, visiting places like these makes me appreciate my local area a lot more.
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