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January 2005
Seagull Reef with 49th Parallel Dive Charters.
"The final entry on All year round diving, and the three reefs of
Saltair"
We
just made up the names as no one around seemed to think they had any names
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| We called this one Seagull reef cause we actually found and retrieved
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This reef proved to be the most interesting as it had the most life of
the three here. We saw schools of rock fish, several greenlings, and
various other smaller fish.
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| Scattered all over the reef were lots of Sea
Cucumber of varying sizes.. |
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Sea stars including blood reds seemed to prefer the top portion of the
reef. One area had several masses of Ling Cod eggs. Although we did not
see any Lings. Lots of
the standard Anemones as well as a few orange Pulmose. A few
Swimming scallops were near the top also. We saw a
few small live rock scallops, but many more very old dead large rock
scallop shells. This certainly indicates that the health of the reef was
better in the past..Nice reef to dive Visibility was about 50ft, the water was cold there
is still a lot of fresh water runoff in the area.
Anchoring was easy in about
35 feet of water.
The reef itself is a large rock with slabs all along the shallow areas
and boulders at depth. We went down as far as 90ft where the bottom continued
on down a gradual slope before we turned back.
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Less than 10 minutes from Chemainus by boat, good anchorage,
little current.
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