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These photos are from a dive at the Trailer Park Islet on Sept. 11, 2016. When I used to dive here, I walked down from the road to the water along what looked like a paved driveway for one of the local houses. The zoning map shows that this is part of the 30'-wide public right-of-way to the water. I'm not sure how accurate the satellite overlay on this map is so to avoid potential conflict with the residents of that house, I now access the water along the middle of the right-of-way. This involves a short forest trail from the road and then a walk along a lawn area next to the trailer park.

Last time I dove here (I took video so I didn't include it on this website), I accidentally came across a rocky area when I was being pushed around by the current. Today, I wanted to try and find it again. I remembered it being East of the exposed islets. I swam straight out from shore near the rocky outcropping on the beach. There are some shallow rocky areas near the beach and I've always snorkeled over them to swim to the islet. Today, I swam along them underwater and they continued out deeper than I expected. The far side dropped down in a small wall to 30' deep. I recognized this area as the rocky reefs I saw last time. They turned out to be much closer to shore than I remembered.

After having a good look at the near-shore rocky area, I followed my compass straight out looking for more rocky reefs, but I didn't find any. Visibility was 20' near shore. I gave up looking for phantom rocky reefs and turned towards the islets. The current was almost too strong to swim against, but it was going in the direction I wanted to go.

Most of my dive was spent around the South-West corner of the islet. There were schools of herring and more juvenile rockfish in the kelp. Seabirds were swimming down into them. A nearby wall went down to about 40' deep.