Day Island Wall, 26 December 2008, Dive #89

Day Island Wall is said to be one of the best dive locations in Puget Sound - it certainly wasn't a disappointment today. Day Island Wall isn't an easy dive because it is located in the Tacoma Narrows and is extremely current sensitive and you can easily get blown off the wall and into heavy boat traffic. Only a few times a year are the tides good enough to easily do a dive here. Today was one of them.

Sadly I did not have my camera along, but the wall was teaming with life. Three giant pacific octopuses, orange and purple gunnels, at least five species of starfish, lots of different species of scorpaenids, shrimp, hermit crabs, a dungeness crab, a wolf eel, and one huge sea lion. Since I didn't have my camera, these photos were stolen from one of my dive buddies, Pez. Here is a link to his video of the sea lion as well:
http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z121/pez7378/?action=view&current=MVI_0033.flv