This is a beautiful, unpopulated area with places to eat and stay as well as rent watersport equipment. You can walk south along the coast here for miles. 301 winds south through Pole Oleja and past the salt beds to a parking lot at the base of the lighthouse. This packed dirt road floods during storms and is very potted. The drive is well worth the trouble.
Mangrove trees line the western shore. .
The lighthouse is located near the edge of a very steep cliff 200 feet above the ocean. The area around the lighthouse is craggy and full of paths which provide different views of the windswept terrain and coastal cliffs. Just east of the lighthouse parking lot is Playa Succia, one of my favorite white sand beaches. The beach provides good snorkeling when waves are not entering the bay from the south. . 303 east from Rt.