These photos are from Feb. 17, 2025. Since many years ago, this place was full of wolf eels and then they mostly disappeared, I wanted to check up on this place and see what the wolf-eel situation was lately. It was a very low tide and the slippery rocks made entry and exit tricky.
Visibility was about 20-30' in the shallower depths and 50' or so deeper down. Right near the entry-point, there was a fish carcass that I thought at first was a lingcod, but then looking at its head, I think it might have been a pollack. As expected, I had a few sealion visits in the shallower depths. There was another group of divers here today and we briefly swam past each other underwater.
I reached the "wall" area (more like a small ledge) about 60' deep. I had a look for wolf eels under all the flat boulders at its base, but I didn't see any. The other divers didn't see any either.
I went a bit farther out to the right and deeper than I normally go here. I saw another rocky ledge dropping down. I stayed near the top (112' deep). I didn't see any boot or cloud sponges, but there was a decent amount of feather stars.
I was trying to avoid going into decompression so I swam back up shallower to the boulder area 60-80' deep where I usually dive.
I'm still not really a big fan of this site compared to many of the other local dive sites (especially since the wolf eels disappeared). I still think it's worth coming back to occasionally for the topographical exploration. Whenever I come here I always end up diving within a relatively small area. Maybe next time I'll try swimming farther to the left (towards the entrance to the bay). In this direction, the rocky area seems to end in mostly sand, but I wonder if deeper down or farther along, there are more big rocky areas full of wolf eels.
