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.
