At Cape Enrage we saw the importance of reading and heeding the times on the signs. At the top of the stairs going down to the beach, it clearly tells you to avoid being trapped you should be back at the stairs by 1:45 pm.
The girls and I went down at about 1:40 pm but we weren’t straying far from the stairs. They go down 30m to the ocean floor. In this photo you can still see a bunch of people almost in the centre of the photo at the bottom.
In the photo below you can see a guy with a red shirt coming back towards the stairs. Where he is is the narrowest part and where the tide will hit the cliff first.
The video below shows some people trying to avoid getting wet, two people get over and then the guy stops to help the other couple. At the 19 second point you see two kids and a mother come running into the frame. The boy slips on the wet rocks and if the guy didn’t have his arm, he would be in the water. In the end the mother gets two soakers as she gets across.