Da Hol o Mooa - Scottish Cave and Mine Database Site Details

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Da Hol o Mooa

NGR:	HU 60763 64862
WGS84:	60.36319, -0.90034
Length:	60 m
Vert. Range:	Not recorded
Altitude:	-5 m
Geology:	Wadbister Ness Formation - granofels, calc-silicate rock & granofelsic semipelite
Tags:	Cave, Hole, Arch, SeaCave
Registry:	main

The cave system faces SE and after an arch (L=7m) there is a triangular-ish gloup about 6 m across. Then the tunnel turns a bit left (SW) onto a WNW direction. At the tide level in the video, it was necessary to duck under to pass along to a second, more rounded plan gloup about 8m in diameter at the top. The cave tunnel carries on, but in the video they were hesitant about disturbing seals they could hear and busied themselves retrieving an old fishing net.

Notes: Access: by boat in calm weather. May be a snorkel/dive only cave to get all the way in.

From aerial, the length to the WNW end of gloup 2 is 48 m plus a guesstimated extra 12 m - but it is probably longer.

Links and Resources:

OS cave dot.
Canmore Aerial showing the entrance and the two gloups.
Photo 1 frame from video - entrance in context - the middle.
Photo 2 entrance from the water - from video.
Photo 3 entrance from closer - from video.
Photo 4 inside - possibly showing a side tunnel - from video.
Photo 5 looking up through the second gloup which from aerial is at HU 60720 64884.
Photo 6 this is the continuing tunnel after the second gloup - which they did not explore because of the seals and the net.
Video taken by Ryan Leith in 2022 of their trip into this cave system.

This entry was last updated: 2025-01-30 20:36:39

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