The key to this trip was knowing your tides and knowing all the locations where the tide will impact your route. Which I thought I did, but turns out I was wrong..
We started at Rialto Beach and made our way to Cedar Creek. I thought the last high tide spot was around the 5.5 mile marker which ended up being really wrong. https://youtu.be/RyeogoBEtw0
The beach is pretty straight forward to Hole in the Wall, and the crowds thin out afterwards.
Then you enter a combo of beach walking and rock hopping for pretty much the entire route to Cedar Creek. When the tide is out, navigating is very easy. But with it in, there's lots of spots where you are navigating pretty slick rocks with seaweed on it, so poles are definitely handy.
There's at least 1 section where you have to go up and over using the ropes. Even at low tide we had to use it. The rest of the sections you could get around at low tide just fine.
There's a really good water source at about the 6 mile marker so if you need to refill water that's a good place to do it. The Cedar Creek south beach has water but it is mostly standing still so it isn't the best water in the world.
I recommend starting 2-3 hours before low tide and then you should be fine the entire way. Our tides were 1.5ft at low tide and 8.8ft at high tide!
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