Low tide was meant to be at 5.30pm, and the original plan had been to only stay one night, but how could we stay only 1 night in this gem of a spot! Though we did need to be back at work 2 days after… so we decided we’d do 1 more night, and leave with the morning low tide instead – setting our alarms for 5AM! We always take plenty of extra food, and weren’t expected back in cell reception till that day anyway, so no issues with the change in plan.
That allowed us time to go explore further around the coastline – and test out that bath!
The other group there told us before they left that the track to the lighthouse was very overgrown, and it was best to go round the coastline instead – so we decided we’d try that after the tide dropped. Meanwhile we walked the start of the track, and B enjoyed sliding down the sandy hill! We collected some firewood to top up the shed, and we explored the bush surrounding.
After lunch we headed round the coastline to try walk to the lighthouse. There was a sea lion who spotted us before we spotted him, and bolted straight into the sea! B loved watching him then playing in the waves. We definitely kept an eye out for sea lions after that!
As we walked around, we kept looking for spots where we could cut up to the lighthouse, but there was quite a lot of cliffs, and although we found 2 spots that could work, they couldn’t really work with B in tow. The wind had also picked up a lot so we decided to head back instead once we hit the point as we definitely didn’t want to be putting B into any risky positions.
Back at the hut we put the fire on to heat up the water. It took about 3 hours for the water to get warm enough to fill up the bath, and we even took all the pots at the hut, filled them with water and put them on top of the range to top the bath up with hot water faster.