Walk along to the first crossing and turn left. Follow the footpath down the hill through the gorse to Petit Port. Turn right along the main road and follow the marked footpath to the left towards St Ouen. Walk around the slipway and up the wooden steps, to join the footpath round L'Oeillere headland.
St Ouen's Bay, known as the Five Mile Road (the Jersey French name for a sand-dune is Mielle) stretches out to the north, with the late 18th century La Rocco tower the central feature. Notice the bunkers and the anti-tank walls around the bay, part of the massive defensive installations ordered by Berlin in 1941.
The firm sand is an ideal surface for motor racing in the summer and the Atlantic swell provides for excellent surfing. Notice the long slipway or Charriere used by farmers when gathering vraic (seaweed) in the autumn to fertilise the potato fields.
The Pulente Inn is superbly located at the end of the bay, offering a selection of ales, and high quality food. There is an upstairs restaurant with views of the bay, and plenty of tables outside.
Continue by returning to the headland track, and turn up the steep steps to the top of the headland. Turn left at the crossing and look for La Sergente passage grave, a dolmen from stone-age times.
Return to the crossing and continue down the hill to the north. Turn left along at the bottom of the hill, then left again to follow and then cross the stream. Turn left up the main road for a short distance, then first right between the bungalows.
This lane leads to the Corbiere Walk. Turn left, cross two main roads and look out for the granite sign to Le Beau Port and Mont des Croix. Red squirrels can often be seen here. They are beginning to re-appear after losing much of their habitat in the devastating hurricane of October 1987 when thousands of trees were lost.
Turn right towards Le Beau Port and walk through the housing estate. Cross the main road into the Les Creux Millennium Park.
Turn right by the Bowls Club down the track marked to St Brelade's Bay and Le Beau Port. A Green Lizard may be seen sunbathing on a rock around here! There are also more examples of sculptor Derek Tristram's work on the headland.
Now take the cliff path towards the west, keeping the sea on the left. All the rocks and bays have names, from La Grosse Tete at the edge of Beau Port bay, Les Caines reef close inshore, and the rock-strewn Fiquet Bay. Much of the granite used in 18th and 19th century defences was quarried along this part of the coast.
The unmistakable prison compound now looms up, known locally as the La Moye Hilton. Follow the footpath signs past the prison and back onto the headland, leaving the meteorological weather station close on the left-hand side. The track leads through Gorselands Nature Reserve, where stonechat, linnet and Dartford warbler are winter visitors and a variety of heathland wild flowers can be seen.
Take the next metalled road back inland, then cross over the main road to rejoin the Corbiere Walk. Turn left and return to Corbiere Point and The Phare for a well-earned drink! The fields on either side of the track are often filled with crows and magpies - the name Corbiere derives from the French Corbeau (crow).
