This time (June 12, 2009) I went to a slightly different spot. I had a look at an old chart from the 1950's that was more detailed that the newer one. It showed what looked like a wall-type steep area going down to 60 feet deep a bit farther West along the South side of Albert Head. It's near the first decent-sized bay West of the island-area that I normally dive. The wall is supposed to be on the Eastern point of this bay. I beached the boat on the pebble beach and swam out through the bull and feather boa-filled bay to the point. Visibility was still only about 15 feet. A wall dropped down from the kelp forest in the shallows to about 30 feet. This wall was covered with urchins and coralline algae. There were also patches of orange colonial tunicates, zoanthids, cup corals, plumose anemones, fish-eating anemones, tiny orange hydroids and various cucumbers. -Basically nothing surprising for this area. Deeper down, there was a slope with the occasional rocky reef and boulder. I saw a few clusters of plumose anemones and a fair amount of rockfish (copper, quillback and black) and kelp greenlings. Below about 45 feet, there weren't any rocks and there was just a mud/shell slope. I went down to about 70 feet and there was no change. I went back up to the shallow wall and saw more rockfish and a Puget Sound king crab in a crack. In the kelp above the wall there was a large school of black rockfish with some coppers hanging around. Despite the disappointing visibility, I had a decent time, although I don't think I'll take the trouble to bring a boat here again.
