I usually come to the Breakwater almost as a last resort, when I don't have time to go anywhere else. Ironically, I end up having some seriously excellent dives here. Today's dive (Oct. 3, 2009) was probably the most beautiful I've had here. Visibility was about 50 feet at the end of the breakwater. That's about as good as it gets here. It was sunny and bright and I could swim out over the sand 85 feet deep, look back and see the entire plumose-covered slope swarming with schools of thousands of rockfish. I didn't see the orange "mystery" rockfish I saw last time here (boccacio? Silver grey?), but I did see another group of rockfish that I've never seen before. I think they might have been widow rockfish. It seems like every time I've been diving here lately, I find a new-to-me species of rockfish. The breakwater is definitely the best site in the Victoria area for variety and abundance of fish. I also saw a ratfish again. Another group of divers nearby saw a sealion swoop past them underwater, but it avoided me since I had a camera.
