The Alki Beach Park is often overlooked.  Excellent marine life can be found here, and it makes for great night dive as well.  Access is easy, and facilities are available.  Bring the kids, and make a day of it!

Just South of downtown Seattle, take the West Seattle Bridge to hop over to West Seattle.  Just before the bridge ends, make a right onto Harbor Ave SW.   Drive Northwest until you round the point and find yourself heading Southwest on Alki Ave SW.  The whole stretch is considered Alki Beach Park, but drive to the end of the beach section before parking.  Just before the beach residences, there will be a pathway down to the beach.

Alki Beach Park

We started in cove by the Sea Taxi. Swam to the 3rd buoy and descended following the rope. Saw a Ling Cod that was easily twice the length of my fin. (4 ft.?!) WOW! No Octopus. Went to 106 feet and saw the I-Beams planted in the bottom covered in White Anemones. On the way up saw white and red Nuibranchs. But the most memorable was the monument someone set up at about 40 feet for a fallen diver. The name and age escape me but the inscription caught me. 'Lost to the earth but forever in the sea'. This was attached to a concrete pyramid anchoring a 4 foot galvanized cross. Very Cool.

Jerry from Spokane's Dive Log

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