SUMMARY: The most highly- regarded shore dive in Victoria (for most people). My first choice when the current tables are cooperating. I can't say enough about this site. You really have to see it.                                    LOCATION: At the end of White Rock Road near Cadboro Bay and the University of Victoria. Get a map or ask a dive shop for more information. The dive is straight out from the small parking lot.                                                      WHAT TO SEE:  A wall drops from around 30 - 40 feet down to a rubble bottom at around 80 - 90 feet. A seasonal bull kelp forest grows in the shallows.   The wall is covered with invertebrates: Plumose anemones, yellow sponges, colourful tunicate colonies, zoanthids, cup corals... etc. Big sunflower stars and nudibranchs are common.  Fish life includes rockfish (copper, quillback,vermillion....etc.), decorated warbonnets, lingcod, cabezon and small sculpins. This is a good place to see red Irish lords. Octopus live at the bottom of the wall. The main attraction (for me anyways) are the invertebrates.                                                       CONDITIONS:  The current rushes by here pretty quick. Most people dive here on slack. If you go down when the current is running, you won't have time to see much and you might end up drifting in the middle of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Visibility ranges from about 10 feet on a bad day to 50 feet or so on a good day.
ENTRY POINT
COPPER ROCKFISH AND YELLOW COLONIAL ASCIDIANS
ZOANTHIDS
DECORATED WARBONNET
LINGCOD
RED IRISH LORD
TUNICATE SURROUNDED BY ASCIDIANS
COPPER ROCKFISH RESTING ON SULPHUR SPONGE
SCULPIN
SHRIMP ON SPONGE
DIVER AND CABEZON
OCTOPUS IN DEN
WALL
NEXT TO WALL
LIFE ON WALL
KELP IN SHALLOWS
VERMILLION ROCKFISH ON WALL
SMALL PLUMOSE ANEMONES
DIVER ABOVE WALL
copper rockfish on wall
ROCKFISH AND ANEMONES ON WALL
LINGCOD ON WALL
COPPER ROCKFISH AND ANEMONES ON WALL
QUILLBACK ROCKFISH
SUNFLOWER STAR AND PLUMOSE ANEMONES ON WALL
AT BASE OF WALL
EVGENY IN FRONT OF WALL
COPPER ROCKFISH AND PLUMOSE ANEMONES
IN SHALLOWS
DESCENDING
looking at leather star
YOUNG KELP IN SHALLOWS
CABEZON AT BASE OF WALL
SUNFLOWER STAR ON WALL
NUDIBRANCHS
PLUMOSE ANEMONES AT BASE OF WALL
SMALL PLUMOSE ANEMONES
LINGCOD AND COPPER ROCKFISH
TOP OF WALL
VERMILION ROCKFISH
COPPER ROCKFISH ON WALL
LOOKING AT SMALL ROCKFISH
SUNFLOWER STAR
NUDIBRANCH
OCTOPUS
OCTOPUS AND ROCKFISH
OCTOPUS
OCTOPUS
OCTOPUS AND ROCKFISH
OCTOPUS IN DEN
rockfish on  the wall
sponge
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