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Excellent visibility throughout the water column. Water temps were nice as well right in the 50° range. At about 140 feet while I was sleeping I had a small group of 3 inch market squid. I was absolutely shocked to still have daylight penetrating down on the pipeline all the way to the end of it. At 140 feet there was very little daylight but at 120 feet. It was still quite nice.

For a "average at best" divesite in the shallows... we did see many creatures. Tons of creatures hanging out in the rocks and sugar wrack kelp. We only went down to 60' and not all the way to the pipeline, but the rock line over the pipeline makes navigation easy and provides shelter for so many creatures. Nudibranchs: Dirona albolineata, Taylor's Seahare, Tritonia festivia, Hermisenda opalescence, white and orange tipped nudibranch, red flabelina. Sea stars: mottled, ochre, leather, striped sun, vermillian. Anemones: giant plumose, short plumose, tube, swimming. 1 year old giant pacific octopus. Algaes: bull kelp, sugar wrack kelp, turkish towel, eel grass, sea lettuce. Fish: great sculpin, scaleyhead sculpin, co turbot, rock sole, sanddab, striped sea perch, shiner perch, tubesnouth, brown rockfish, Crabs: dungenes, red rock, black eyed hermit, northern kelp.