Tag: west race wall

Last Day of Our Scuba Diving Circumnavigation of Vancouver Island

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive
Post date 2008-06-14

By Nautilus Staff on June 14th, 2008 in Archive

Dive #1 was at West Race Wall at Race Rocks. Dropping the scuba divers off in a 25 knot westerly was a bit of a challenge especially considering that we are not allowed to drop the anchor and stabilize ourselves in the Marine Protected Area. Dive #2 was off the Ogden Point Breakwater with the Nautilus Explorer tied up in the Inner Harbour in front of the Empress Hotel. Wrapped the trip with a great dive on the artificial reef G.B. Church off Portland Island.

Tags empress hotel, Ogden Point Breakwater, portland island, race rocks, Vancouver Island, west race wall

Where are all the Sea Lions at Race Rocks??

Post author By Nautilus Staff
Categories Archive, Captain Mike
Post date 2007-06-13

By Nautilus Staff on June 13th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike

Our first dive today was at West Race Wall and the scuba diving there equals world famous Browning Wall (which means that it is pretty darn good). My only surprise of the day was the dearth of sea lions basking in the sunshine on the rocks. I’m used to seeing hundreds of animals here. Instead, we saw a total of 5 stellar sea lions and no California sea lions. Not sure what to make of that.