I did two dives at Madrona Point on March 28, 2010. It was the busiest I've ever seen it here. The parking area was full of divers from as far away as Washington State. Visibility was 40-50 feet and it was the brightest I've seen it at the base of the wall (80-90 feet deep). I saw a large octopus in a crack, but no wolfeels this time. For the second dive, I put on a close-up lens even though it's against my principles. As I entered the water, a group of Steller's sealions swam by on the surface, stretching up their necks to see my macro lens. On the wall I saw a small octopus crawling around. Back in the shallows at the end of the dive, two sealions swam slowly by right in front of me. I tried to ignore them and take some photos of the tubesnouts in their mating colours, but they were camera-shy and hid in the sargassum seaweed.
yelloweye rockfish
yelloweye rockfish
yelloweye rockfish
next to wall
zoanthids on wall
quillback rockfish
looking down at divers at base of wall
divers by wall
feather star
small octopus
rockfish
feather stars
rockfish
sea whip at base of wall
crimson anemone at base of wall
sea pen at base of wall
zoanthids
sea whip
sea whip
copper rockfish
rockfish on wall
rockfish on wall
diver swimming around corner of wall with swarm of rockfish
rockfish on wall
diver and rockfish on wall
rockfish on wall with divers in background
crimson anemone on sand
juvenile yelloweye rockfish
rockfish on wall with divers in background
quillback rockfish and zoanthids
feather stars on wall
tiger rockfish
yelloweye rockfish
small octopus
divers at base of wall
feather star on wall with diver in background
copper rockfish and zoanthids
small octopus
rockfish and kelp greenling on wall
rockfish on wall
yelloweye rockfish
sloping ledges
yelloweye rockfish
yelloweye rockfish
yelloweye squished in with copper rockfish
tube-dwelling anemone and seastar
rockfish
yelloweye and other rockfish
yelloweye rockfish
rockfish on wall
copper rockfish, anemone and large octopus suckers
feather stars
rockfish on wall
sunflower star and kelp greenling on wall
swimming anemone
tube worms
small octopus
tube worm
anemones on boulder in shallows
seaweed
seaweed in shallows
between dives
divers
divers
divers at Madrona Pt.
sandstone shoreline
beach across from Madrona Point
beach across from point
view of mountains from dive site
view of mountains from dive site
view from dive site