The bay is better known as the water in front of Popeye Village. The film set was built here in 1979 for the Robin Williams musical and has been kept as a visitor attraction since. The village charges for entry and its small beach comes with the ticket.
The bay itself is a narrow inlet of sand and rock, reached from the road above if you would rather not pay. Boats run in and out of it through the summer. It faces west, so an afternoon westerly puts swell into it, and there is very little parking at the top.
Tickets for the village are sold at the gate and in advance, which matters on a summer weekend when the car park above fills early. You can book a Popeye Village ticket through Klook.
Which winds this bay can take
It is sheltered from the west-north-west round to the south-west. There is no open water on those bearings for a wind to build a swell across. It is open to the west-south-west to the west, where the sea runs for kilometres before it reaches this shore.
- NSheltered
- NNESheltered
- NESheltered
- ENESheltered
- ESheltered
- ESESheltered
- SESheltered
- SSESheltered
- SSheltered
- SSWSheltered
- SWSheltered
- WSWOpen sea
- WOpen sea
- WNWSheltered
- NWSheltered
- NNWSheltered
Measured as metres of open water on each bearing out from the shore. This is the bay’s own geography and it does not change; whether it is swimmable this afternoon is the reading at the top of the page, which also weighs how hard the wind is actually blowing.
