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Usually when I dive here off Bonito Crescent, I swim out to the right. Today I want to swim out to the left, where the sidescan image shows another rocky slope dropping down near shore. I also want to have a look at the West end of the rocky area that's out a bit from shore. This was on Feb. 12, 2023.

I swam down along the rocky reef on my left. It met the sand at about 50-60' deep. Since it was so shallow and this is the Strait of Georgia, there wasn't much marine life on it. Visibility was 40-50'.

I swam out across the 60'-deep sandy channel towards the farther rocky reef.

I reached the far reef and swam West along its base. The bottom of this end of the reef was 50-60' deep and the top was less than 30' deep. There wasn't much marine life at this end of the reef. It's too shallow for the boot sponges and carpets of feather stars that you see below 80' deep at other sites in the area. There was an area of small boulders in one spot at the base of the reef that had a few small copper and quillback rockfish, but overall, there were almost no fish.

I reached the Western corner of the reef. There were some flat rocky areas barely sticking up out of the sand just off the point. The depth here was still about 60'. This is where I turned around and started swimming back.

I left the reef and started swimming back across the sand/gravel gap. There almost seemed to be more marine life out here than back on the rocky area.