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I haven't been diving up at the site of the old lumber mill in Caycuse for years. The visibility was undergoing Spring plankton blooms in Victoria so I went up to Cowichan Lake to try and dive the area off the old townsite of Caycuse (May 19, 2020). Unfortunately, when I arrived I saw that the road to the town was now blocked off by a gate so I drove back a bit down the logging road to dive the site of the mill's log dump instead.

The main feature of this site (at least as far as I've found in the few dives I've done here) is the wreck of what I think is a small scow just off my entry point about 15-20' deep. Visibility was maybe 20' today. I took a series of photos of the scow in the hopes of digitally stitching them together later to show the entire wreck. I unintentionally took the photos at a slight angle instead of straight on so the software was unable to combine the images. I'll just put the series of photos below and you'll have to use your imagination to combine them.

I left the wreck(?) and swam out a bit deeper and to the East. I swam around almost at random hoping to find something interesting that I hadn't seen before like a pile of steam locomotives or a 100-year-old sunken bunkhouse, but there were still just a lot of big silty mounds (it seemed like it was from piles of sawdust) and a few logs. My maximum depth was around 30'.

I swam back past the wreckage and up to my entry-point beach. I tried to get some photos of all the newts in the shallows, but they kept wriggling away into the weeds.