About 16km south of Cape Vidal, Mission Rocks is a wild run of shoreline whose tidal pools come alive at low tide with anemones, urchins and small fish. The seas are too rough for swimming, but it is a superb spot for a picnic, a spot of fishing or whale watching from the cliffs.

From the picnic site, a two-kilometre beach walk at low tide brings you to the Bats Cave, home to a colony of Egyptian fruit bats. Check the tide tables before you go, take water, and keep an eye out for birds and whales along the way.