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Superb Visibility and Lighthouse Visit in Quatsino Sound

Post author By Nautilus Staff
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Post date 2008-06-11

By Nautilus Staff on June 11th, 2008 in Archive

We capped the day off with a visit to the Quatsino lighthouse and were given a wonderful tour by the very friendly lighthouse keepers. Quatsino is a beautiful place and I won’t soon forget watching the sun stream through the trees on the steep and heavily wooded hillside beside our anchorage. But without a doubt, the highlight of the day was steaming 1/2 mile offshore from dreaded Solander Island off Brooks Peninsula. It was a spectacular sight in surprising calm seas – calm enough that I actually thought of staging a spontaneous dive off Solander (which is something I am sure nobody has ever done before).

Tags British Columbia, brooks peninsula, caves, greenlings, kelp bed, lighthouse, Lingcod, quatsino sound, Rockfish, Solander Island, Vancouver Island, wolf eels

Muck Diving in British Columbia

Post author By Nautilus Staff
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Post date 2008-06-09

By Nautilus Staff on June 9th, 2008 in Archive

Our scuba divers loved it as they found every imaginable sort of nudibranch and “muck” creature. I was a bit skeptical when they surfaced and gleefully told us that it was fabulous British Columbia muck diving but everyone seemed to have a great time. One diver even found the steel hull of a shipwreck on one side of the island. We staged dives 2 and 3 at slack in Quatsino Narrows and very good dives were had by all.