These photos are from Oct. 25, 2011. This time I swam out on the surface from near the tip of Saxe Point Park. Visibility was about 20 feet. There was some surge, but not much current.
urchins
fish-eating anemone and urchins
tube snouts under bull kelp
seastars on top of a flat reef
fish-eating anemone
anemone and kelp greenling
urchins
reef at Southern tip of the islets
zoanthids
zoanthids
urchins
urchins
urchins
anemone and urchins
abalone
anemone
copper rockfish
edge of reef
edge of reef
anemone
side of reef
at the Southern tip of the islets
anemone
anemone
under the kelp
spotted rose anemone
in the channel between the two main islets
juvenile Puget Sound king crab
juvenile Puget Sound king crab
juvenile Puget Sound king crab
kelp
seal in the distance in the middle of the picture
seeal in the distance in the middle of the picture
top of a shallow reef
anemones
anemones
small perch and eelgrass in channel between islets and shore
eelgrass in channel between islets and shore
small perch and eelgrass in the channel between islets and shore
small boat hull covered with kelp between the islets and Saxe Point
parking at Saxe Point
shoreline at saxe Point with Gillingham Islets in the distance