Yesterday’s snorkelling adventure was at Sturdee Street Cove in Esquimalt, BC. Having been in the water here multiple times, I wanted to take another look around before entry and exit are made much more awkward by an abundance of seasonal kelp. This first video (above) shows the access stairs and the shore. The Esquimalt Harbour… Continue reading 179 Sturdee Street Cove
Category: Dive
Every post in this category should much like a logbook entry for a particular snorkelling of freediving session at a particular site.
178 Saxe Point Park
Today’s snorkelling adventure was along the east side of Saxe Point Park in Esquimalt, BC. Five of us from the Cold Water Addicts group entered and exited the water from the Inspiration Cove beach. This first video shows the site from the surface. The conditions were ideal. We were in full sunlight the entire time.… Continue reading 178 Saxe Point Park
177 Tudor Cove
Yesterday, my plan was to go snorkelling among the islets of the Ten Mile Point Ecological Reserve during a brief period when the current should have been weak and changing direction. As has usually been the case when I have tried this in the past, the wind turned out to be stronger than what I… Continue reading 177 Tudor Cove
176 Henderson Point
As an experiment, this post about today’s snorkelling session in Saanich Inlet is mostly a copy-and-paste of the Evernote note that I am currently using as a logbook. Doing it this way saved a lot of typing but I don’t like how much space this WordPress theme puts between list items. This first video shows… Continue reading 176 Henderson Point
175 Ogden Point Breakwater
Yesterday was a good day for snorkelling at the Ogden Point Breakwater in Victoria, BC. The sun was shining and the iconic artificial structure provided shelter from the cold wind so the surface was calm. The vertical visibility from the surface was about 5 metres, which is typical for this time of year. After some… Continue reading 175 Ogden Point Breakwater