Devil's Bridge is an arch of fossil reef on the eastern headland of Antigua, in Antigua and Barbuda, the one point of the island that faces the open Atlantic, and its platform of limestone is drilled with blowholes that boom under the feet before they spout, on a headland that is unfenced and dangerous, where the swell arrives with nothing between it and Africa. The rock walked out on is a dead reef turned to stone, with corals and shells legible in the platform, and the sea has undercut it into the arch and bored the blowholes through it; the way to see it is to stand back and wait, since a big set arrives, the rock thumps underfoot and a moment later the holes let go in a column of spray, hardest in winter when the groundswell of North Atlantic storms meets the Christmas trade winds and the spray carries clean across the platform. The name comes from the accounts of enslaved people who threw themselves from the rock, believing the current off this headland would carry them home to West Africa, and the island tells it as the place the devil takes his own.
The headland is inside a national park with beaches on either side, and Half Moon Bay to the south is the island's finest, where the Atlantic hits the reef across the mouth of the bay and arrives at the sand as something that can be swum in, with the wind for the kitesurfers at the far end. From June to November hawksbill turtles, hunted almost to extinction for their shell, come ashore after dark on the park's beaches to lay about 150 eggs at a time, and the crawl is still written on the sand at dawn, two parallel drag marks running up to the dry line and back, with the hatchlings digging out two months later. The bridge itself is not walked across any more, since people have been swept off it. Devil's Bridge is a reef the sea is breaking through, and the blowholes are the sound of it.