God's Pocket Post the First

[tiggymalvern]

I made the first dent! I got some video edited of my trip to the wilds of Canada, aka God's Pocket resort on a tiny island off the northern tip of Vancouver Island.

The diving in this area was described by Jacques Cousteau as the best cold water diving in the world. And damn, it was pretty. And damn it was cold! This video is from the second day of diving, in glorious sunshine. The first dive of the day was at Browning Wall, a sheer cliff dropping away deeper than any sane diver would want to go, and every inch of it covered in multi-coloured invertebrate life. The second dive was a site called Snowfall, a more sheltered rocky slope with almost as many invertebrates and big shoals of rockfish where the slope levelled off at around 100 feet. And a giant pacific octopus, though this one was a juvenile, so not all that giant.

https://youtu.be/EneHoHCCq6c

Please watch in 1080 - it doesn't always default to that, depending on your browser, add-ons etc.

Comments

[bymyverytoes]

Octopus! So lovely. The sponges are beautiful, and rock cod look like they're wearing business suits :)

Thanks for sharing ❤️

[tiggymalvern]

Octopuses are always wonderful, they never get mundane, no matter how often you see them :-)