fish-eating anemone
tiger rockfish
        I know that a few dives ago, I said that the current was the strongest I've ever seen here, but today (Jun. 25, 2010), it was even stronger. There was no way I could swim against it. It swept me along backwards and sideways. I couldn't slow down enough for any photos. I entered near the light at the end of the breakwater, and according to my computer, it took about 3 minutes to drift to the second bend (and half the time I was going backwards, kicking against the current). That's a bit over a 2-knot current. Of course, the current stopped dead at the second bend so I was able to take some semi-close-up photos. Visibility was 15-20 feet.
male wolfeel at second bend
male wolfeel at second bend
crimson anemone
lingcod
quillback rockfish
fish-eating anemone
Puget Sound rockfish
quillback rockfish
canary rockfish
canary rockfish
canary rockfish
canary rockfish
young tiger rockfish
Puget Sound rockfish
Puget Sound rockfish
        Conditions were great today (Jun. 28, 2010). Visibility was average (20-25 feet), but there were no waves or current and the fish were out on parade. I usually see a few juvenile yelloweye rockfish, but on this dive they were everywhere. Some of them are getting pretty big too. -Not a foot long or anything, but in a few years we might have some adults at the breakwater. Near the second corner, Andrew (one of the divers in the photos) saw a large dead lingcod with fishing line trailing out of its' mouth.
blocks at the surface
down through the kelp
through the kelp
down the slope
boulders
plumose anemones
fish-eating anemone
anemones and urchin
vermilion rockfish
vermilion rockfish
juvenile yelloweye rockfish
fish-eating anemone
juvenile yelloweye rockfish
juvenile yelloweye rockfish
urchins
vermilion rockfish
vermilion rockfish
vermilion rockfish
fish-eating anemone
tiger rockfish
fish-eating anemone
lingcod
fish-eating anemone
fish-eating anemone
juvenile yelloweye rockfish and anemone
lingcod
painted greenling in middle of photo
yellowtail rockfish
yellowtail rockfish
yellowtail rockfish
fish-eating anemone and Puget Sound rockfish
shy tiger rockfish
tiger rockfish
wolfeel
wolfeel eating diver's head
wolfeel
wolfeel eating urchin
wolfeel eating urchin
wolfeel
wolfeel
wolfeel
wolfeel
wolfeel almost touching dome port
looking at octopus den
black rockfish in kelp
        These are from Sept. 10, 2010. Visibility was about 30 feet. The current at the end of the breakwater was too strong to swim against again, so I let it shoot me back towards the second bend. I couldn't hang around long enough at the end to find the schools of widow rockfish, but I saw a few individuals around the rocks. I also saw a few juvenile silver-grey rockfish at the base of the slope around flags #3-4.
Puget Sound and black rockfish
black rockfish
black rockfish
copper rockfish
sponge and plumose anemones
plumose anemones, etc. 80 feet deep
fish-eating anemone
juvenile yelloweye rockfish
juvenile yelloweye rockfish
vermilion rockfish
vermilion and Puget Sound rockfish
vermilion rockfish and fish-eating anemone
octopus and Puget Sound rockfish
octopus
octopus
octopus
sea lemon nudibranch
cropped photo of widow? rockfish
tiger rockfish above female wolfeel
tiger rockfish on siltier bottom around flag 4
tiger rockfish
attempt at a juvenile silver-grey rockfish photo
cropped juvenile silver-grey rockfish photo
canary rockfish
canary rockfish and sunflower star
copper and canary rockfish
canary rockfish
in kelp
kelp
shallow blocks
shallow blocks
at surface