Kelly's Point search

2 ft viz in the shallows, less than 25 ft. South Hood Canal has aqua colored water. To the untrained eye this could be thought of as warm tropical 300ft viz water. But its some kind of red color absorbing algae thats causing water to turn this color. It was quite bizarre to see not much particulate matter in the water but have 2 ft viz. Its like something invisible in the water was absorbing the light without reflecting it back. Kelly's point isn't open to the public since the divespot entrance is through Kelly's backyard. YSS has special permissions to dive here and I'm grateful they put this shop dive together. Head to the buoy by the boat, which takes you directly down to boat #1, where there's a large GPO underneath. East of here is boat #2 where there's supposed to be a large friendly playful GPO but we didn't see him. Saw the largest red octo I had ever seen. It had just captured a crab. A good sized dogfish shark kept buzzing by a couple times. Nudis: Yellow margin, nanaimo dorid, monterray sea lemon, white-lined dirona and janolous fuscus everywhere in the eelgrass Several good sized sailfin sculpin, hundreds of plainfin midshipmen! wow. I've only seen them a few times until now. Plenty of shiner perches, a 3-4 inch greenish blue fish with 2 pointy dorsal fins that I've never seen before. Viz here was 2 feet and we were past the hour mark so I didn't take a pic. Found in the shallow eelgrass bed. Millions of shrimp Interestingly enough, the divebuddy YSS paired me up with did his Ph.D on red octos and laid down the pipes at Driftwood Park where red octos(and wolf eels) use bottles and pipes. Looks they they were learning red octo behavior and I'm excited to his research paper on them