Boardwalks from the parking areas offer access to the beach protecting the fragile sand dunes from foot traffic. Life guards are stationed at each district of the park at Parking Area 1 on Apollo Beach and at Parking Area 8 on Playalinda Beach. There is no water available, no showers, or public telephones. For your protection be aware of safety concerns when visiting the ocean. Ocean water washes across the bar, gathers in the trough, and rushes back out through the breaks in the sand bar, thus creating a rip current.
Rip currents can be very strong.
Unwary bathers are sometimes caught in rip currents and carried deeper into the ocean. Learn how to identify rips. Know the conditions that produce them. To escape a rip, swim across the current not directly back into it. Once free of the rip, swim back to shore.