Andy Lamb and I having been diving together regularly since 2006, It's been a real treat having a Marine Biologist as a dive buddy. Many of the old sites seem new and fresh because Andy always finds something I have not seen before or is able to accurately identify the critters I had spotted in the past. Of course he's a wealth of knowledge on creature behavior and habitat so he really helps put together the big picture of what's happening in the environment.

Everyone talks about how rich our marine environment is and how there is more than 5000 species out there and we have the 2nd best diving in the world etc. etc. but not many of us have actually seen a list

Andy's been rating the dive sites as we have been going along and he figures a good site is one that he has been able to identify a 100 critters or more. So I decided it would be interesting to share the details of the sites that indeed have met the criteria.

The following list will likely change over time so keep an eye out for updates.

We have used Andy's book "Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest" as a reference and so are using the Lamb-Hanby Species ID letter/number code and the page reference is where to find it in "The book". If you need a copy of "The book" and would like to order one drop us an email and we'll make sure you get an autographed  one.

Although we have indicated the number of creatures found at each site we have only listed the ten most interesting or unique on each of the sites and we have tried to not duplicate species across sites unless there was something special about the circumstance or they were particularly abundant.

I hope you find this as interesting as I do and I hope further you will come and join us in exploring the Salish Sea soon..