I haven't been to Albert Head for several years. For various reasons, diving here from shore has been discouraged (even for military members). I finally dove here again on Nov. 4, 2012 (from a boat). Visibility was 20-30'. It seems pretty much the same as I remember it. I swam farther along the wall than I used to and it eventually became deeper (70') than the 50-foot-deep wall that I remember. We saw a few small octopus. One of them was out in the open and it inked when I started taking pictures. I also saw several sea nettle jellyfish. The only other time I saw them was in Fall, 2009. They're common off California, but they occasionally drift into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
jumping in
before descending
sea nettle
rockfish on the rubble below the wall
fish below the wall
black rockfish
rockfish below the wall
at the base of the wall
quillback rockfish
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
base of the wall
plumose anemones and urchins at the base of the wall
anemones on the wall
sunflower star and urchins on the wall
urchins on the base of the wall
kelp greenling
boulders at the base of the wall
plumose anemones, zoanthids and urchins on a boulder
plumose anemones at the base of the wall
vermilion rockfish
plumose anemones on the wall
looking up the wall
looking up the wall
seastars at the base of the wall
plumose anemones at the base of the wall
at the base of the wall
looking down the wall
at the base of the wall
part of the wall
smaller part of the wall
urchins
black rockfish
copper rockfish
boulders at the base of the wall
sunflower stars
sunflower stars
seastars and urchins
boulder below the wall
boulder at the base of the wall
looking down the wall
looking up the wall
near the base of the wall
giant barnacles
yellow sponge on the wall
over the sand at the base of the wall
rubble at the base of the wall
octopus den
octopus den
octopus den
rockfish and fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone and black rockfish
urchins on the wall
urchins and rockfish
black rockfish
black rockfish
black rockfish
plumose anemones
plumose anemones
urchins and rubble
above the wall
top of the wall
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemones
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
urchins on the flat ledge above the wall
urchins and seastars
urchins and seastars
small octopus
small octopus
looking at small octopus
octopus inking
octopus inking
small octopus
sea nettle caught on an urchin
freeing the sea nettle
the free sea nettle
sea nettle
urchins
another sea nettle
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemones
fish-eating anemone
sea nettle
sea nettle
sea nettle
sea nettle
back at the surface
back at the boat