Last time I was here (the video is on my video page), I found a current-swept area sticking out from the small islets just offshore that went down to about 65 feet deep. I wanted to have a better look at it and take some still photos, but I was dreading carrying my two bolted-together, bulky camera housings down the steep, awkward and slippery public access trail. Instead, I parked near the water at nearby Telegraph Bay and snorkeled out on the surface around the point to the small islets (April 1, 2012). This distance was around 275 meters. Visibility was about 15 feet. I was diving when the Baynes Channel/Ten Mile current table was showing a few hours with almost no current, but it was actually fairly strong here (ebbing). I could still swim against it without too much of a problem. I swam down to the colourful tunicate-covered reefs and boulders 35-60 feet deep. Several varieties of nudibranchs were everywhere. Because of the current, I only stopped to take photos of about half the species I saw. Like last time, I didn't see many fish, but I still think this is a decent dive.
tunicates on a boulder
urchins on a boulder
nudibranch
nudibranch
urchins
swimming between a small reef and a boulder
nudibranch
urchins and burrowing cucumbers
nudibranch
hermit crab on tunicates
nudibranch
tunicates on the rocks
tunicates, etc.
crab on a tunicate colony
urchins and tunicate colonies
stuff on the rocks
tube worms in a sponge
nudibranch
fish-eating anemone
sculpin on a staghorn bryozoan
nudibranch
nudibranch
nudibranch
over the reef
stuff on the reef
nudibranch
nudibranchs
nudibranch
lemon nudibranch
burrowing cucumbers and tunicate colonies
staghorn bryozoan
sculpin
tunicates and bryozoans
crab
urchins and scattered rocks at the base of the reefs
looking up the reef
reef
looking up the reef
shy Irish lord
boulder on the reef
35 feet deep
urchins, burrowing cucumbers and seastars 30 feet deep
stalked kelp on the swim back to shore
nudibranch
nudibranch
nudibranch