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Thursday morning, up early, and take a boat out of San Antonio.
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The unspoilt shore to the west of San Antonio,
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and a headland further west.
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The boat is small enough to get into a large cave.
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Where everyone stares down into the deep water.
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Which looks something like this.
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As we leave, the next boat in the queue enters the cave. They all fell in the water just after this.
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At last, the first sighting of Es Vedra (the large lump of rock).
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We're getting closer. (Es Vedra is quite famous)
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And closer. (It appeared in South Pacific)
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It's uninhabited, apart from the lighthouse keeper, six goats and a cast of falcons.
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The water around it is deep, very deep (200m).
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We leave the rock behind...
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One final view of the "Cathedral of the Mediterranean".
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We then stop in shallower water to jump off the boat.
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The idea is to retrieve bottles of fake Champagne which the crew have foolishly dropped overboard.
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It may be shallower, but it's still too deep for me.
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But at least there is a final view of Es Vedra.
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As we get under way again, I begin to wonder why the flag is flying at half mast.
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The crew try to take my mind of it by pouring wine all over me (I did manage to swallow some)
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At last we return to San Antonio Harbour.
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It's good to be home, thats's our hotel just behind me.
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And a sunset.
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Sunset.
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Sunset.
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Sunset.
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More f***ing sunset.
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Back to Garden of Eden for a few slammers, before joining an unending taxi queue for Amnesia.
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Several hours later we get to the overcroweded Cream closing party
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I rename it Cram, possibly because they've crammed 10000 people into a 5000 capacity venue, or possibly because theres a lack of e's.
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