We found this excellent dive quite by
chance. We were coming back from maple bay with the depth sounder on and I
happened to look at it just as we went over this huge rock not marked on the
chart. I hit the mark button on the GPS and watched the sounder as the rock
then disappeared behind us. We went back a few weeks later and dropped a
keen group of divers in to explore it an they all came back with an
incredible number of critters that they had seen. We could not wait to dive
it ourselves and so did shortly after. In our dive we discovered that indeed
it is a small pinnacle surrounded by 100 feet plus of water. The top of it
on a high tide comes to within 30 feet of the surface. We anchored on the
lee side of it to descend down this wall at least 60 feet tall starting
about 35 feet below the surface.
On our dive we managed to swim to the far northern end
then double b
ack to find the southern end. Between these to points we were
able to find numerous Tiger Rockfish, Lingcod, Hairy spine crabs, a Helmut
crab, various sponges, a Rhinoceros crab and a variety of other gunnels and sculpins.
To say the least this was a fantastic new dive site,
which as we explore and map more of it will become one of our feature dives.