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We circumnavigated Iona in an anticlockwise direction. We rounded its south west headland to discover a wonderland of stacks, islands, tidal channels hidden bays and caves.
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This cave was deep and had amazing colours in the walls. There was white shell sand below its turquoise water...
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...and a little sandy beach right at the back of the cave.
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The next cave is called "spouting cave". In the gentle swell it was more like a kettle than a cave but you can imagine what it would be like in an Atlantic storm.
19/07/2007