I tried again for the wall on Nov. 1, 2008. I eventually found it, but then my camera strobe decided to quit just when I was getting warmed up. I finished the dive with some natural-light photos in the shallows. Visibility was around 40-50 feet.
I came back a few days later (Nov. 4, 2008). I made a new camera strobe sync cable and was ready to go. I drove up here wanting to dive at Beachcomber Park, but there was a decent swell running. The breakers even had those tubes that would look good with a surfer going through them. I probably could have shoved my way through them, but I didn't feel like it (especially carrying a fragile camera). So I drove around looking for somewhere else to get in the water. Cottam Point was nasty too so I ended up back at Dolphin Beach for some unfinished photo business. There were some waves on the beach here too, but not as bad. Visibility was about half of what it was last time (20-30 feet). The surge seemed to be stirring up the bottom. I went out to the wall, but it seemed to be a different wall than last time. It bottomed out at around 110-120 feet, but the wall I visited last time had 2 small cloud sponges that didn't exist this time. There were still the usual boot sponges and feather stars. Out past the sandy base of the wall there were more small walls and ledges dropping down to who knows how deep. My computer didn't let me investigate too far. I saw 2 large Puget Sound king crabs and a small cabezon on the swim back to shore.
