The Grotto

We went to the grotto after breakfast. We had a 40 minute walk through pine forest and emerged to a small cove which contained the grotto accessed by a short swim across the cove. There was no beach, it was an amazingly bleached white shingle but mainly rock. The water was crystal clear and a lovely shade of blue; where the rock showed under the water it was a clear white, shading to a
deep azure blue as the water gets deeper; which it does quite suddenly rather than shelving gradually. Sue was the first in; she was joined by the Nyhout family and I got in as far as my waist before deciding it was just too cold to get in any further. Over time we all got out of the water and warmed up again on the rocks for an hour or so.

Tobermory, Canada