After an excellent dive at Christmas Point (March 14, 2010), I wanted to do another of my random, no-name, don't know what to expect Saanich Inlet dives. I went across the Inlet from Christmas Point and motored North to find a landmark that I could recognise again. I saw a mini-cavern (more like a bit of a weathered hole) in the rock about 1/3 of the way up towards Elbow Point. It's not much of a landmark, but it caught my eye. The wide-angle photos with me in the overhang make it seem larger than it really was. I anchored as usual near the shore and swam straight out and down.  Visibility was an amazing 100 feet. There were the expected reefs, walls and sandy slopes going down well over 150 feet deep. I went down to 130 feet, where there were a few boot sponges, but not many fish. I saw a few copper and quillback rockfish on my way back up the slope and a part of a wall covered with zoanthids. Because of my previous dive today, most of this dive was spent above 60 feet. I watched some ducks swimming around on the surface and schools of perch swimming around the bottom kelp. Overall, this spot seemed to have even less life than many other spots in the Inlet, but with the great visibility, it was hard not enjoy it anyway.
hole in the rock
boot sponge
boot sponges
boot sponges
copper rockfish at 110 feet deep
copper rockfish 130 feet deep
sandy slope and reefs below 100 feet
boot sponge
boot sponge
dead boot sponges
seastars and copper rockfish 80 feet deep
seastars and copper rockfish
next to wall at 100 feet deep
quillback rockfish
zoanthids at 80 feet
zoanthids and barnacles at 80 feet
zoanthids and barnacles at 80 feet
60 feet deep
seastar at 60 feet deep
seastar and tube-dwelling anemone
bottom kelp 40 feet deep
bottom kelp-covered reefs at 40 feet
at 30 feet deep
30 feet again
jellyfish
school of perch 20 feet deep
20 feet deep
bottom kelp, a few jellyfish and boulders
20 feet deep
20 feet deep
sunflower star on side of reef 30 feet deep
shallow reefs and trees above the surface
white bubble-trails from panicked ducks
seastars near surface
seastars near surface
seastars near surface
seastars near surface
seastars near surface
bottom kelp
near surface
near surface
approaching boat
swimming to boat
anchored boat
anchored boat
anchor chain and boat
near boat
hole in the rock
hole
at dive site
at dive site
entry-point looking South
in hole
camera looking out of hole
in hole
boat with Christmas Point area in background
hole and clear water below