Awhile ago, I heard from some local divers who had done some dives here last year (Ben Kilmer and Chris George). They said that they had found a small "Swordfish Island"-like swimthrough on the far side of the islet at the base of the reefs. They said that there were some strawberry anemones in the tunnel. I've been trying to visit this area for awhile, but the current has always been too strong to swim very far out around the point. On July 22, 2011, the current was minimal and the visibility was at least 40 feet. I snorkeled out on the surface to the canyon by the islet and spent awhile taking video (I didn't have my still camera with me) of all the colourful life on the walls. It was hard to tear myself away from this area, but I eventually continued to swim out around the far side of the islet down to the base of the walls and sloping reefs. I followed the margin where the rock met the sand and I saw a large boulder on the reef with clusters of plumose anemones on it (about 55 feet deep). As I swam up for a closer look, I saw a tunnel leading underneath it. I swam down through it. It's pretty short. It branches off and you have a choice of 2 exits. on one of the sloping walls I saw a coating of strawberry anemones. They looked different than the ones I normally see. They were smaller, more widely spaced and pale-coloured. There were lots of fish around the tunnel (vermilion, quillback, Puget Sound, black and yellowtail rockfish, lingcod and an Irish lord). I tried to follow the base of the reef farther West, but my single tank wasn't up to it. I though I could see the vague shape of another reef farther out across the sand, but my common sense wouldn't let me go and investigate. I swam up the slope back to the shallow kelp forest full of small rockfish and clouds of herring. I went back again for another dive on July 24, 2011 with a still camera. That's where the pictures on this page are from. My dive was pretty much identical to the one 2 days before except the visibility had dropped to a still-respectable 30-40 feet.
