Third Annual Trip to God’s Pocket, British Columbia.

Wolf Eel at God's Pocket.
My favourite fish, the Wolf Eel. Despite its ferocious look, its temperament is just the opposite.

August, 2017

On this year’s trip we scored with some close encounters with the Grizzlies on a day trip with Sea Wolf Adventures.  But the diving conditions didn’t cooperate as expected. This called for some macrophotography, close-ups, portraits, and turning off the camera to just enjoy the silent moments.

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Diving the Browning Pass, British Columbia.

August, 2016.

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The Browning Pass. Life is so abundant here that you won’t be able to find enough room to put a finger down to steady yourself.

Colourful plunging walls, pinnacles, thrilling drift dives, abundant life, orcas, whales, and encounters with weird and wonderful animals.  Every dive begins with all of the thrill of a treasure hunt.  That is enough of a reason to return.

But there’s a second reason.  The more you dive it, the more you will see.  Let me show you what I mean.

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Diving Into God’s Pocket, British Columbia.

August, 2015

Diving God's Pocket, British Columbia.
A Red Irish Lord rests confidently camouflaged among white anenomes and red soft corals in Browning Pass, off the north-eastern tip of Vancouver Island.

Imagine a place so diverse and dense with life that it is literally stacked on top of each other.  You’re surrounded by emerald green coloured water on one side and on the other by sheer white coloured walls  studded with kaleidiscopically coloured sponges, anenomes, and fishes. In between dives you will absorb beautifully rugged scenery, and there’s a good chance that you will see one or more stellar sea lions, sea otters, whales, dolphins, porpoises or even orcas.  It’s virtually untouched and you’re most often the only ones out on the water. That place is God’s Pocket, British Columbia.

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