does exactly what it says on the sign

Day at Hot Water Beach
One of the main attractions to this coast line for us was the aptly named ‘hot water beach’. One of those geothermal phenomenon that you see on documentary programmes back home, but never witnessed in the flesh.

Its only around 7Km from where we are staying, so it was a natural expectation to visit. Even the reception where we are staying has the low tide times, as it was more likely that we could experience the full effect if we visited at low tide. We were up and ready to go by around 9.30am as the tide was turning. We arrived and parked the car and walked across the sand and saw in the distance the gathering crowds (may about 30 or so) where some had dug themselves holes to sit in and others who were standing just as the tide lapped their feet.

We were to find out that there was a narrow area where there was virtually boiling water was bubbling up through the sand, and if you wriggled your feet a few inches below the surface on the shoreline, you could feel the intense heat of the water below. Quickly extracting your feet meant that you had survived, but tempted to keep trying it again and again.
Caroline wanted to submerge herself in one of the pools, and experience the full hot tub effect. I sat back on the rocks and shaded myself from the intense heat that was increasing as midday grew nearer.

We soaked up the rays a while longer and then returned to the car and drove back to our accommodation and had some lunch. Sitting out on the veranda consuming some recently purchased bread, humous and veg meant we were ready for the afternoon trek.
The afternoon challenge was to walk to Cathedral Cove. Again hardly 3Km away although once parked up, the half hour walk was, for some steeper parts, a bit of a challenge. An amazing collection of rock formations awaited us as well as the large cavernous hole which for those who were brave to walk into in (despite the warning signs not to) experienced the cathedral like experience no doubt.

The sun remained hot as we returned back up the hill to the car. All boxes ticked for today.