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
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That body of water that includes the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia
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
172 Three New Snorkellers at Telegraph Cove
My second snorkelling session of 2023 was a much happier event than the first. Three friends from one of my cold-water swimming groups joined me at Telegraph Cove (in the District of Saanich at the south end of Vancouver Island, not the tiny community much farther north on Johnstone Strait). We did not see much… Continue reading 172 Three New Snorkellers at Telegraph Cove
169 Hooded Nudibranch at Ogden Point
Last week I went back to the Ogden Point Breakwater for another snorkelling session, with the faint hope of seeing the same octopus that I mentioned in my previous post. After 10 minutes of looking for it in the crevices near where I had seen it before, I gave up and just worked my way… Continue reading 169 Hooded Nudibranch at Ogden Point
168 Ogden Octopus Encounter
Yesterday I went snorkelling for the first time it almost a month. Because I had to be in the south part of Victoria anyway, I went to the Ogden Point Breakwater. I had been there enough times over the past 37 years to know that it is one of the very best places at the… Continue reading 168 Ogden Octopus Encounter