This was the first dive of the day on the second day (Sept. 21, 2025) of diving off Port McNeill. Plumper Rock is a tiny, sometimes-exposed rock in a current-swept channel in the Plumper Island group.
As we left the marina at Port McNeill, there was a sea otter hanging around next to the stone breakwater.
Just around the corner from Plumper Rock we passed a sea lion haulout.
We arrived at Plumper Rock and descended down the wall. Visibility was about 50'. My maximum depth on the wall was 92', but the wall kept dropping down farther than I could see below me.
I made a couple of stitched-together panoramas from several photos of the wall.
I went back up the wall and around the West side of the rock, where there was a shallower channel between the rock and a nearby bull kelp bed.
I think this was my favourite dive of the ones we did off Port McNeill.
The wall was huge and there seemed to be even more colourful variety
packed on the wall than at the other sites we visited, if that's possible.
