These photos are from May 18, 2025. As usual, my plan was to swim out to the deeper wall.
Visibility in the shallows was pretty murky, maybe 10', but it started to clear up below 30' deep.
When I visit this area, I often see an adult yelloweye rockfish down around the base of the wall. It usually swims away and I only get a photo from a distance. Today it was a low tide so I dropped down the wall to around 130' deep (usually this area is deeper than I want to go) and tried approaching the rockfish. At first it did its usual swimming away, but then it turned around and swam right in front of me. I estimate it must be at least a foot and a half long and it must be pretty ancient. While I was down there I took a quick photo of another small cloud sponge next to a lonely plumose anemone on the top of a ledge dropping deeper.
I left the wall area and started swimming up shallower.
I reached the relatively shallow rubble slope (with a few plumose anemones) in the bay next to the point. Usually I don't spend much time here, but today it seemed extra colourful. Because of the time of year, the burrowing cucumbers were all extended and there were lots of active gobies and painted greenlings.
I didn't see any sealions underwater, but unfortunately
there was a dead one up on the beach.
