Parking lot and overflow lot full to capacity and many parking along the road. Parking along the road is unsafe due to soft soil near riverbank. 

Hike is directly on the beach. Tide too high at time of hike to actually go thru the hole in the wall. The hike is still worth it due to the beauty of the water, numerous pelicans near the ocean surf and the driftwood along the beach shoreline.

Timing:

• Start Time: 1pm
• Reached Hole-in-the-wall: 1:45pm
• Returned to Vehicle: 2:30pm

I explored the hole-in-the-wall and nearby the primitive trail, which has a rope to help climb up and over the cliff at high tide.

Parking:

• There is somewhat limited parking (at least for day hikers), though I got lucky and grabbed a spot as somebody was leaving.

Lovely beach, hiked around higher tide so the beach was rocky and had to watch a bit for waves at parts since I had regular tennis shoes. Many pelicans were out! The hole-in-the-wall is inaccessible to walk through at higher tide - based on other trip reports / descriptions, you can walk through at lower tide.

This trail is also the start of the 30-mile North Coast Route (wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/north-coast-beach-travelway), so I saw a number of backpackers alongside the day hikers and beachgoers.

Pelicans everywhere! Cool rock formations and what looked to be a petrified stump along the beach. Crowds thinned out the further we walked away from the parking lot. Tide was too high to reach Hole-in-the-Wall, but we could see it from a distance. 

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!

Really cool rocky beach walk. I arrived about 30 minutes before low tide (-2.9 the day I was there), so I had plenty of time to walk to Hole-in-the-Wall and back, including stopping to take lots of pictures. I saw a pair of bald eagles in the top of a dead tree about midway between the parking lot and Hole. At the parking lot, the pit toilets were pretty clean and had toilet paper (I had my own sanitizer, so don't know if the dispenser there worked).