Holmes Harbor is a north-facing shore dive in North Puget Sound. Typically, visibility here is about 13 ft (range 5–25 ft), based on 13 pnwdiving reports from 2021 through 2025. For the site briefing, see dive planning for Holmes Harbor.
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Recent Visibility Reports
Dive report for 2/9/25
- Visibility
- 10 feet in the shallows
Reports of 10' viz and 43 degree water.
Numerous young sunflower stars 20' in eel grass.
Scuba Jess and Jan Kocian
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Dive report for 7/31/24
By Jan Kocian
- Visibility
- A chunky 10-15 feet, 15-20 feet in the shallows (high tide)
Only 5 juvenile Sunflower stars. Lewis moon snails, Sanddabs, Graceful and Red rock crabs. But the Fried egg jellies stole the show. Lots of them, small and large.
Scuba Jess and pnwdiving.com
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