It was a fairly decent day for current today (Oct. 10, 2009). It went from a 4-knot ebb to a 2-knot flood in the afternoon so I cautiously tried this spot again. I went in about 1/2-hour before slack and didn't feel much current at all until near the end of the dive when I was on my way back. Visibility was about 15-20 feet, which was better than last time, but still less than I was hoping for. My maximum depth was about 70 feet. I swam out a bit into the channel, but it wasn't getting any deeper. In the bay outside the pass near my entry beach, there was a bit of a kelp forest with swarms of copper rockfish and perch.
hydroid-covered giant barnacles on boulders
at entrance to passage
anemones and sponge in shallows
hydrocorals in shallows
kelp greenling in shallows
perch in shallows
copper rockfish in shallows
sponge on boulder
kelp greenling in bottom of channel
rockfish
quillback rockfish
rockfish
quillback rockfish
tiny, white anemones on bottom of channel
seastars
hydroids and giant barnacles on sandstone formation
plumose anemones in crevice
rockfish between hydroid-covered giant barnacles
copper rockfish
next to boulder
copper rockfish
seastars
bare patch on boulder from anchor?
copper rockfish
stuff on bottom
sponge
stuff on bottom
next to boulder
hydrocorals in shallows
kelp greenling in shallows
seastars in shallows
anemones in shallows
shallows
70 feet deep
in shallows
shallows
kelp greenling in shallows
in shallows
seastar and hydrocorals in shallows
copper rockfish and plumose anemones
plumose anemones in shallows
small plumose anemones in shallows
plumose anemones in shallows
anemones/sponge in shallows
seastars in shallows
copper rockfish
copper rockfish
shallows
shallows
anemones and urchins
copper rockfish and plumose anemones
anemones in shallows
anemones and urchins
perch in bay
kelp crab
perch in bay
moon jelly in bay
kelp crab
moon jelly
copper rockfish in bay
copper rockfish and perch in bay
perch and rockfish in bay
perch in bay
rockfish and perch
copper rockfish and kelp in bay
seastars near surface
copper rockfish
copper rockfish in bay
seastars near surface
boat entering pass
at edge of pass
sculpted sandstone