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Continue along the foot of the cliffs past a jutting headland where the channel reaches the rocks and reach a bay where an escape can be made to the nearby road to the high-tide alternative route (see below). The vegetated cliffs are a veritable vertical rockery.

A variety of plants sprouts from the pink and grey shattered limestone, including wild strawberries, stonecrop, coltsfoot, thrift and celandine – and a few wallflowers, probably escapees from nearby gardens.

At low tide the rocky headland which follows is easily passed close to the channel. Another small headland leads into a broad stretch of sand, where the cliff is topped by the green holiday homes at Far Arnside. A small headland necessitates a rough scramble to pass into a wide sandy bay, still below the extensive holiday park. At the end of a shingle beach, where the woodland comes down to the shore, there is a path into trees to gain the cliff-top path to meet the alternative high-tide route.

The gangway up the cliff has a tricky step