My pet theory lately is that slack here in Enterprise Channel is about 2 hours after the published Race Passage slack. Slack at Race Passage today (Oct. 1, 2010) was at noon so I came for a dive at Enterprise Channel at 2:00 pm. The current was almost non-existent. Visibility was 20-30 feet, which is as good as it gets here. This place looked even more colourful and full of fish than usual. I saw a small octopus out in the open. I didn't notice it until it squirted a cloud of ink right in front of my face.
nudibranch
over boulders
rock fish on top of sewer pipe reef
mating hermit crabs
purple tunicate colony
colourful boulders
octopus eye
cloud of octopus ink
octopus
hermit crab and brittle stars on sponge
rockfish over boulder
at base of sewer pipe reef
nudibranch
colourful boulders
rockfish
hermit crab hiding behind anemone
rockfish
sunflower star, etc.
juvenile Puget Sound king crab
nudibranch
anemone and colourful boulders
quillback rockfish and sponge
large boulder 20 feet away from sewer pipe reef
lingcod
hermit crab
small octopus in middle of picture
small octopus at bottom of picture
octopus
leopard dorid nudibranch
leopard dorid nudibranch
sewer pipe reef
sewer pipe reef
sewer pipe reef
another hermit crab on sponge
eelgrass in bay
small school of herring in distance near beach