This is the next public beach access point North of Yarrow Point and Aboyne Ave. in the Ardmore area of Saanich Inlet. I figured I'd give it a try since I tried the other two. On the chart, the bottom looks similar to the Aboyne Avenue dive site (shallow and not very steep). The one thing this place has for it is easy access. At the end of Braemar Road, there is plenty of room for parking and a short set of steps down to a flat, pebble beach. No long, steep trail. I came here March 9, 2007. I swam straight out and to the right. The gentle slope of the beach continued out for quite a distance. I swam over a long, shallow area of sand and algae-covered eelgrass. There were a couple of moon snails and that's about it until I reached 30 feet deep, where there were some rocky reefs with a few octopus dens (nobody home) a orange plumose anemone and a cluster of squid eggs. Deeper, there was just more sand. Visibility was around 20-30 feet at all depths. I kept swimming towards some docks on the right-hand point where the chart shows a bit of a steeper drop. Just past the docks, there was a slope of rocky rubble going down to around 40 feet deep. There wasn't much of interest here either. I only saw one copper rockfish and no perch, greenlings, etc. The only other fish I saw were black-eye gobies in the crevices. There were a couple more orange plumose anemones and a variety of seastars. -Basically the kind of life you get in the shallows in Saanich Inlet, but it seemed there was less here than at other Inlet sites. I don't think I'll bother coming back unless a decent wreck or something happens offshore.
ORANGE PLUMOSE ANEMONE
SUNFLOWER STAR NEAR SURFACE
SEASTARS ON ROCKY SLOPE
SUNFLOWER STAR AGAIN
SEASTAR
OCHRE STARS NEAR SURFACE
SUNFLOWER STAR
PLUMOSE ANEMONE
SEASTAR
SEASTAR
SWIMMING ON SURFACE
CEMENT BLOCKS AND CHAIN ON ROCKY SLOPE
SQUID EGGS
ME AND SQUID EGGS
PLUMOSE ANEMONE
PLUMOSE ANEMONES UNDER DOCK
SEASTAR
COPPER ROCKFISH
ANOTHER PLUMOSE ANEMONE
SEASTARS NEAR SURFACE
SEASTAR
LEATHER STAR
LEATHER STAR
YET ANOTHER SEASTAR
UNDER DOCK
OCTOPUS DEN
PLUMOSE ANEMONES ON JUNK UNDER DOCK
SEASTARS AND SEAWEED
LEATHER STARS
LEATHER STARS NEAR SURFACE
RED ROCK CRAB
SUNFLOWER STAR UNDER DOCK
SHORE
END OF THE ROAD
STEPS TO BEACH
LOOKING TOWARDS RIGHT-HAND POINT
ARBUTUS TREE ABOVE BEACH
LOOKING OUT FROM BEACH
LOOKING TOWARDS RIGHT-HAND POINT
PANORAMA
WEIRD PANORAMA OF BEACH
AND ANOTHER ONE
REPETITIVE PICTURES OF BEACH
REALLY WEIRD PANORAMA