LOGDUMP ROCK, a small pinnacle of rock north west of Bare Point.

October 22nd 2005

Word of advice, "save your air, dive someplace else".

When planning this dive I did not put one and one together. I was curious about this rock indicated on the chart as lying at 14 meters surround by 38 meters of water on all sides. It looked interesting as the adjacent point certainly had some cool life on it and the reefs to the north west continue to surprise us with a wide variety of life.

What I had not figured out until we reached the bottom averaging 63feet or 21meters on the high tide we had chosen, was that this was directly below where the log carrier's dump there load of logs for processing at the Chemainus saw mill.

The dive started out exciting enough good viz, descending the anchor line we could clearly see large clusters of white plumose anemones long before we could see the bottom. But once we reached the bottom we found it completely covered with years worth of bark that had settled here from the logs being dumped. Other than the boulders that the plumose had settled on there was not much else on the top of this rock. Swimming out to the edges of the rock which seemed to be perhaps a 100 to 200 feet wide we did find a surprising number of rockfish amongst the broken boulders, and even a few lingcod. A few small Sculpins and lots of brittle stars interestingly enough. Tim figures they are attracted to something that is growing on the bark or as a result of the bark decomposing, otherwise almost devoid of any other life.