SUMMARY: Your typical Saanich Inlet shore dive. LOCATION: At the end of Willis Point road and down a trail. See a dive shop or dive guide book for more information.                                                                   WHAT TO SEE:  A huge area to explore. Dramatic walls drop off close to shore. Being in Saanich Inlet, there isn't a lot of life on the walls. Sea stars, mostly sunflower and sun stars, are the most obvious creatures. Small to medium lingcod, rockfish and perch are always hanging around. In the shallows, leather stars are everywhere. There are lots of shrimp jumping around and a few prawns and blackeye gobies in little crevices. Tube-dwelling anemones are common in sandy areas. You can see boot sponges below 100 feet. Big jellyfish in the summer. - Basically the same sort of dive as Willis Point and Henderson Point. There are rumours that this is the best place to see six-gill sharks in the Victoria area. They sometimes come up from the depths in summer.- I'm still looking.                                                           CONDITIONS:  Again, typical Saanich Inlet. No current, bad visibility in late spring and early summer, and it's easy to go as deep as you want. On a dive here in mid- Febuary, visibility was at least 100 feet. I was hovering at 70 feet and could see the surface and another 50 feet below me before the wall faded into darkness.
DIVER AND PLUMOSE ANEMONES
SHORELINE
PRAWN
LINGCOD ON WALL
PLUMOSE ANEMONES
SUNFLOWER STAR
SUNFLOWER STAR
TUBE-DWELLING ANEMONE
DIVER AND SUNSTAR
ENTRY POINT
SCALY HEAD SCULPIN
YELLOW BORING SPONGE
NUDIBRANCH
RED SLIPPER CUCUMBER
NUDIBRANCH
OVER/UNDER
LOOKING OUT FROM ENTRY POINT
SUNFLOWER STAR ON WALL
SUNFLOWER STAR
CLOUD SPONGE
CLOUD SPONGE
COPPER ROCKFISH IN CRACK
ANOTHER SUNFLOWER STAR
SUNFLOWER STAR
PAINTED GREENLING
REBREATHER DAVE IN SHALLOWS
ON SURFACE
SEA STAR IN SHALLOWS
MIDSHIPMAN?
IN SHALLOWS
RANDOM DIVER AND SUNFLOWER STAR
MORE RANDOM DIVERS OVER BLOOD STAR
CLOUD SPONGE
STUFF ON ROCK
SEASTARS AND UNDERSEA MOUNTAINS
DECORATED WARBONNET
ROCKFISH IN BOOT SPONGES
ROCKFISH IN BOOT SPONGE
BOOT SPONGES
SEASTAR IN SHALLOWS
LOOKING AT WARBONNET
ROCKFISH IN BOOT SPONGE
DECORATED WARBONNET IN BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER
ROCKFISH AND SPONGE
LOOKING AT ROCKFISH IN SPONGE
COPPER ROCKFISH
ANOTHER ROCKFISH
LEATHER STAR IN SHALLOWS
SCHOOL OF PERCH
ROCKFISH AND SUNFLOWER STAR
-More photos from mid-June, 2007. These are from two dives; One at the popular entry-point and one near the end of the trail. Visibility was 6-10 feet in the shallows, but cleared to 50-80 feet below 30 feet deep.
CLOUD SPONGE
BOOT SPONGES
WALL COVERED WITH LIGHTBULB TUNICATES
BABY RED JELLYFISH
SEASTAR
LINGCOD
WOLFEEL
JUVENILE YELLOW-EYE ROCKFISH
ANOTHER JUVENILE YELLOW-EYE ROCKFISH
CRYSTAL TUNICATE ON WALL
ON SHORELINE
BOOT SPONGE AND SEASTAR
LOOKING AT SMALL CLOUD SPONGE AT END OF TRAIL
LINGCOD
COPPER ROCKFISH IN SHALLOWS
MOON JELLY
SWIMMING ANEMONE
SHORELINE
ARBUTUS TREE ON TRAIL
SHORELINE
SHORELINE
SHORELINE
SHORELINE
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