Orville's Pirates Cove Experience

With cool dark blue water, and golden sand, climbing is probably the last thing that would come to mind, until you get there. You walk down stairs into a cove with rocks all around, their height ranging from 20 to almost 70 feet tall. There is one main climbing area, the roof. Completely horizontal in parts, the hardest route coming out is a V7. The holds are the part I remember the most though, not the water, or the sand, or the fact I’m climbing on the beach, but the holds. On the routes, there isn’t a sloper route, or a crimper route, but more like a mixed route, going from crimp to jug, to pinch, to pocket to sloper.

Watching ships sail by, and chalking up my hands is truly a unique experience. There is no one I wouldn’t recommend this to. With a lot of a walls unchalked, there is definitely room for more routes, if only someone would establish them…

Orville Clarke III