Blakely Island

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Blakely Island

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Has anybody dove the walls around Blakely Island? My buddy and I dove Rosario wall last Sat. and on the way back we started to wonder about how diving some the walls would be. We are thinking about doing a live boat dive off the west side of this ( little) island that's right beside Blakely. :calvin:

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Re: Blakely Island

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Ive done the east side of Blakely and Pensacolaracer knows that area pretty damn well. We dove Strawberry Island and Blakely that day. Dont know much about the west side though.
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Re: Blakely Island

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I have dove at Blakely Island many times and do not remember any walls. Could you be talking about Blake Rock?

I'm bad, after looking at the chart I was thinking of the wrong island.
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Re: Blakely Island

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That's strawberry island. Its a decent dive, roughly a B to B+. Commonly done on the slightly more current protected inside (east side) as the 2nd dive of the day (off slack). Small to medium exchanges only.
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Re: Blakely Island

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CaptnJack wrote:That's strawberry island. Its a decent dive, roughly a B to B+. Commonly done on the slightly more current protected inside (east side) as the 2nd dive of the day (off slack). Small to medium exchanges only.
Strawberry Is. is on the West side of Cypress Is. on Rosario Straight. I think the question was about a site in Lopez Sound just NW or Thacher Pass between Willow Is. and Blakely Is.

Perhaps a chart will clarify.

I dove both Strawberry Is. and Lawson Rock in Thacher Pass on the same day last Nov. Strawberry Is. was a lovely dive bout Lawson Rock was covered in silt. I wonder if this site would suffer from the same silt deposits?
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Re: Blakely Island

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ur right. I don't think I've ever dove Willow Island, in general I avoid the interior of the San Juans, its dang muddy. San Juan channel being the notable exception.

Thatcher pass would be awesome absent some pesky ferries & security zones.
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Re: Blakely Island

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As Rick said, I have dove the south side of Blakley several times. On the chart Ross posted, there is a small island just north of the 19 fathom mark. Just north of that (on the big island) is an outcropping. That is the wall where I dive. Max depth is about 60 feet, no current to speak of ever, lots of urchins, and the biggest Cabezon I have ever seen.

Makes for a great second dive after Strawberry Island.
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Re: Blakely Island

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The East side has some great walls and BIG fish.
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Re: Blakely Island

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After seeing some charts I see that it is Willow Island we were looking at.
CaptnJack wrote:ur right. I don't think I've ever dove Willow Island, in general I avoid the interior of the San Juans, its dang muddy. San Juan channel being the notable exception.
Muddy? As in muddy botom or muddy vis? Seems as though that area should get flushed out pretty well.
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