The headland is connected to the mainland at low tide, but cut off at high tide for four or five hours. If you set off across the rocks as the tide goes down, as soon as the tide gets low enough, you can easily walk to the end of the headland and back before the tide comes back up. It’s a wonderful walk.
But don’t cross later, unless you want to spend several hours on the headland. If you leave the return too late, you really have to stay the eight hours – you really can’t cross paddling. The route across the rocks is much too difficult to do with the sea sloshing around you. Quite a few people have drowned trying to get back to the mainland after the tide was too high.
We were on the head itself when I took this photo.
Note the Devil’s Bridge. Walking over the top is no problem – far easier than the scramble over the rocks below it, and indeed possible even at high tide when the sea meets under the bridge (although you’d be stuck on the headland until the tide went down if you were there then).
©Clive K Semmens 2008