I haven't been to Ogden Point in awhile and I wanted to do a quick dive, so I came here in the morning on Aug. 3, 2009. I'm glad I did because it was a great dive. Visibility was about 30-40 feet. I saw about 10 tiger rockfish. One of them had a dead, small octopus in it's mouth. When I swam up, it dropped the octopus, which fell down right into another octopus' den with a large resident at home. A wolf eel came out and bumped into me before I even realised it was there. The juvenile yelloweye rockfish are starting to get pretty big. Hopefully, we'll eventually have some adults swimming around here. It was an incredible dive, but what really made my day was my first sighting of a CHINA ROCKFISH. This site has always been my favorite rockfish dive because of the variety and abundance of species. So far I've seen copper, quillback, vermilion, canary, black, yellowtail, yelloweye, Puget Sound, tiger, silver-grey, and now China. The kelp forest in the shallows was amazing too, with the shafts of light streaming down and the schools of black rockfish swimming around. On a day like this, the last section of the breakwater must be one of the best shore dives in the province.
black rockfish in kelp
black rockfish in kelp
kelp
burrowing cucumbers
puget sound and yellowtail rockfish
fish-eating anemone and rockfish
yelloweye rockfish
canary rockfish
tiger rockfish
tiger rockfish
China rockfish
China rockfish
China rockfish
China rockfish
sunflower star, plumose anemones and puget sound rockfish
fish-eating anemone
yellowtail rockfish
yellowtail rockfish
plumose anemones
yelloweye and quillback rockfish
octopus in den
small dead octopus falling towards big octopus den
anemone and tiger rockfish
fish-eating anemone
sunflower stars
sunflower star
wolfeel
wolfeel
wolfeel
wolfeel and kelp greenlings
wolfeel
wolfeel
wolfeel
wolfeel and kelp greenling eating urchin
wolfeel and kelp greenling eating urchin
wolfeel and kelp greenlings eating urchin
wolfeel and kelp greenlings eating urchin
wolfeel and kelp greenling eating urchin
lingcod
fish-eating anemone and rockfish
tiger rockfish
yellowtail rockfish
tiger rockfish
tiger rockfish
tiger and puget sound rockfish
tiger rockfish
yelloweye rockfish
fish-eating anemone
lingcod
yellow sponge and plumose anemones
lingcod
at edge of kelp forest
burrowing cucumbers
lingcod
black rockfish in kelp
black rockfish in kelp
kelp
black rockfish in kelp
black rockfish in kelp
black rockfish in kelp