On the chart, this place looks similar to Henderson Point, and since I don't know of anyone who has been diving here, I thought I would check it out. It's on the Tsartlip Indian Reserve in the Brentwood Bay area of Saanich Inlet. They have a popular boat launching ramp off Tsartlip Drive with plenty of parking. If you look out from the boat ramp there is a short stone-rubble breakwater to the left. I swam out across a small bay past a half-submerged wreck of a wooden cabin-cruiser to the end of the breakwater. I descended and swam more or less straight out and a bit to the left. The rubble breakwater bottomed out at around 15 feet deep and there was a natural reef continuing down to a silt-gravel bottom at 30 feet or so. This natural reef was similar to the shallows at Henderson and Willis point, but with hardly any fish. I only saw a couple of black-eye gobies and a rock greenling guarding eggs. Visibility was around 10 feet here in the shallows (early November). I swam out across the gently-sloping gravel-silt bottom to see if I could find any drop-offs. There were a few tires and small reefs scattered here and there, but mostly it was a monotonous flat plain. I was just about to give up, when I reached the steep rocky area I was looking for at around 70 feet deep. Visibility had improved to around 50 feet.  The section of wall I was on had a semi-circular shape with a flat, boulder-covered area in the middle at around 110 feet deep. All the life that I didn't see earlier was crowded into this "bowl".  A group of around 30 yellowtail rockfish swam in mid-water and copper and quillback rockfish were everywhere. There were a few swimming anemones on the rocks. I saw a couple of tiger rockfish so I looked around for wolf eels (every time I've seen tiger rockfish, a wolf eel den was nearby). The sides of the cliffs had lots of deep cracks and sure enough, a male wolf eel was poking his head out of one of them. I would have liked to explore this area better and look for more wolf eels and maybe sponges, but my computer said I was already in "decompression", which I was trying to avoid. It was quite a swim to get back to shallow depths ( I didn't want to do a decompression stop in mid-water). I'll be back to explore this area better later on -if I can find it again.             *UPDATE*                                                             As promised, I came here again (Nov. 19, 2004). The visibility had improved to about 30 feet near the surface and over 50 feet deeper down. I swam out to try and find the "fish bowl" and wolf-eel again. There were lots of big orange plumose anemones 20-40 feet deep that I didn't really notice last time. I swam in the direction that I thought the deep wall was in and eventually I reached one, but not the one I was looking for. I swam along 100 feet deep and noticed very little life on the sloping wall. I didn't even see any fish. This area went down deeper than I could see. I continued to swim to the left and then in the distance I saw a school of fish. It was the place I remembered. I didn't see any sponges in the area. Deeper down was just a slope of sand. I then went to the wolf-eel den from last time and he was still there. The area was still packed with rockfish. I went across the underwater "bay" to the other side about 20-30 feet away. There was a deep crack running along the bottom of the wall and a female wolf-eel was peeking out near a few large nudibranchs. A few feet away, in the same crack, there was a very large octopus. Back in the shallows, about 40 feet deep, I saw two Irish lords, one of them guarding eggs.
NUDIBRANCH HEAD
WOLFEEL IN DEN
WOLFEEL IN DEN
TIGER ROCKFISH
JELLYFISH
SMALL BAY
SWIMMING ANEMONE
SEA STARS ON FLAT BOTTOM
ROCK GREENLING EGGS
BURROWING SEA CUCUMBER
RUBBLE BREAKWATER ON LEFT
BOAT RAMP AND RUBBLE BREAKWATER IN DISTANCE
PLUMOSE ANEMONE
MALE WOLF EEL
PLUMOSE ANEMONE
PLUMOSE ANEMONES
PLUMOSE ANEMONE
JELLYFISH
COPPER ROCKFISH
FEMALE WOLF EEL AND NUDIBRANCH
ROCKFISH
MORE PLUMOSE ANEMONES
YELLOWTAIL ROCKFISH
FEMALE WOLF EEL AND NUDIBRANCHS
QUILLBACK ROCKFISH
IRISH LORD
IRISH LORD
IRISH LORD AND EGGS
SWIMMING ANEMONE
        There is now a $10 charge for parking/launching. I went to the "underwater bay" area again. I saw a female wolf eel in the den where the male was last time. All the rockfish were still there, except now there is a group of vermilion rockfish as well. Visibility was around 30-40 feet down deep before I started kicking up the silt. In the little bay near the launch ramp, I had a look at the small, beached wooden wreck (or what's left of it).
COPPER ROCKFISH IN SHALLOWS
SEASTAR
WOLFEEL
TIGER AND VERMILION ROCKFISH
WOLFEEL AND SHY ROCKFISH
ANOTHER SEASTAR SELF-PORTRAIT
SMALL PERCH IN SHALLOWS
PLUMOSE ANEMONE
TIGER ROCKFISH
VERMILION ROCKFISH
WOLFEEL
BROWN ROCKFISH AND OCTOPUS DEN
SEASTAR AGAIN
SEASTARS ON BOULDER NEAR SURFACE
OVER SHAFT OF WRECK
BEACHED BOW OF WRECK
ENGINE ON WRECK
RIBS OF WRECK
VERMILION
UNDER WRECK
UNDER WRECK
LOOKING AT STEERING WHEEL
WRECKAGE