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A Journey down the River Dee with Jon Beer
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Llyn Tegid
The River Dee, like all the best rivers, begins with a
lake. A lake gives a river provenance: it gives it gravitas. Many streams
spill their waters into Llyn Tegid in the heart of the Cambrian Mountains.
One of them, not the largest or longest, is the Dyfrdwy, the infant
Dee, but at Bala the Dee emerges from Llyn Tegid as a proper, double-stitched-and-riveted
river.
Llyn Tegid, the largest natural lake in Wales, buffers the Dee from
the worst excesses of flood and drought. It is helped by the hand of
man: sluices at Bala can release more water to prevent the river running
dangerously low in dry weather. This flush of cold water can be a welcome
relief to salmon waiting in the stifling heat of the estuary, stimulating
them to begin the long journey upstream.
Llyn
Tegid seen from Llangower
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