点评:A beautiful rustic quiet unspoiled beach.
A WARNING though - RIP CURRENTS. I dont know if we were just unlucky, but I've read since, that this beach has strong rip currents at times. We were unaware of this and were caught in a rip. We were near the wave breaker rocks near the new Sandals development (formerly Almond beach resort)
We were chest deep, it was calm. Suddenly it changed and big waves started coming in, we tried to jump them, and because our feet left the ground we were swept out past the wave breaker rocks and could not get back however hard we swam.
It took a good 20 mins swimming parallel to the shore to get back and cling on to the wave breaker rocks.
We were told by a Bajan you should never swim on that part of the beach, and the next day another Bajan told us a man had got into difficulties that day too. I now know there was a north swell at the time, maybe this caused it - but google reports show there can be strong currents at Heywoods.
Please be careful, it was terrifying and if I hadnt have known to try and stay calm and swim parallel to the beach I don't think we'd have made it.
翻译:一片美丽、质朴、宁静且未受破坏的海滩。
但请注意——有离岸流。我不知道是不是我们运气不好,但我后来看到资料说,这片海滩有时会有很强的离岸流。我们当时对此毫不知情,结果被卷入了离岸流。我们当时在新建的 Sandals 度假村(原 Almond 海滩度假村)附近的防波堤附近。
水深及胸,当时风平浪静。突然间,风向突变,巨浪涌来,我们试图跳浪,但由于双脚离地,我们被卷到了防波堤之外,无论我们拼命游都无法返回。
我们花了足足 20 分钟平行于海岸线游回岸边,才抓住防波堤。
一位巴巴多斯人告诉我们,千万不要在那片海滩游泳。第二天,另一位巴巴多斯人告诉我们,当天也有人在那里遇到了危险。我现在知道当时有北涌,也许这就是原因——但谷歌地图显示海伍兹海滩附近水流湍急。
请务必小心,当时的情况非常可怕,如果我不知道要保持冷静并平行于海岸线游,我想我们可能就没命了。