Cotswold Water Park – Somerford Keynes

Playing in the water at Somerford Keynes

Playing in the water at Somerford Keynes

After a busy day on Saturday, the plan for Sunday was a day by the lakeside at the Cotswold Water Park.

Thankfully the weather co-operated and we had what was probably the best day so far of the summer with temperatures at around 30ºC and glorious sunshine. A little too hot really, but we are British and therefore never completely happy about the weather!

Of course, the warm weather and the school holidays meant that it was pretty busy at Somerford keynes, but we soon found a spot and set up camp for the day. The lake itself is quite large with several different areas. We had been to one area before where you can hire canoes and such like, but today we went to the area specifically for under 8’s. It has various bits of playground equipment, a small artificial sandy beach and a small enclosed shallow area of the lake. This meant that the little-ones could run around and play all day long whilst the adults sat and relaxed. Not really my sort of thing so I soon had itchy feet and wanted to do something, but Morgan was having fun so in the end watching him play with his cousins was my entertainment for the day, interspersed with the odd little stroll here and there.

There is also a large beach-like area opposite the children’s area where there are playgrounds for older children and a designated swimming area. This area is larger than the ‘younger children’s’ area. We did have out inflatable canoe with us and probably should have pumped it up and put it on the water but we weren’t sure of the restrictions. Also I would have had to do this away from everyone else which wasn’t really the idea. I was hoping we would have been able to use it on the lake and let everyone have a go so that I could have taken the children on trips of ‘adventure and exploration’ around the lake. Maybe next time.

As well as the various swimming areas and the watersports region of the lake, there is also a shop, lots of barbeque area and a high ropes adventure facility. It is also possible to fish on the lake and I’m sure there are some decent fish in there. We saw loads of baby fish in the swimming area and from the balcony around the shop it was possible to see loads of huge mirror carp too.

All in all it was a good day out with perfect weather, nice lake scenery and most importantly Morgan got to play with his cousins all day long.

It didn’t end there either because once home The water-slide came out in the garden and Morgan, Megan, Harry, Charlie, Jack, Kia and Shaun had a whale of a time playing in the garden too.

Anna enjoying the sunshine

Anna enjoying the sunshine

Morgan playing in a rubber dinghy

Morgan playing in a rubber dinghy

Fun in the sun

Fun in the sun at Cotswold Water Park

Somerford Keynes Water Park

Somerford Keynes Water Park

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Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.