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HOPKINS MARINE LIFE REFUGE 10’ POINT PINOS 40’ - 110’+ Int.- Adv.
-40’ & 60’ - 90’ Beg. - Adv. From 3rd St., Rocky shore or boat dive amongst granite
Pacific Grove to Aquarium, from mean boulders with caves and reefs. This site
high tide mark to 60’ depth. No marine features an array of invertebrates,
life may be take without permit issued by including a rock scallop bed at 100’, plus
Hopkins Marine Station. Beach or boat gamefish. Explore the wreck of SS Frank
dive within refuge. Big granite deep called H. Buck (1924). Caution: Exposed to
DEEP REEF is a boat dive with white wind, swell and boat traffic.
anemones and wolf eels beyond the
Refuge boundary. PACIFIC GROVE MARINE GARDENS
FISH REFUGE Third St. to end of city
LOVER’S POINT 10’ -40’ Beg.- Adv. limits at Asilomar Conference grounds,
Beach check-out dive with rocky from mean high tide mark to depth of 60’.
pinnacles. Sea life includes sculpin, bat No invertebrates or plant life may be
rays, and torpedo rays. West side night taken. Fin fish hunting okay.
diving.
SPANISH BAY Spanish explorer Don
OTTER COVE & KC ROCK 10’ - 60’ Gaspar de Portola camped here in 1769
Beg.- Adv. Rocky beach dive. KC Rock is while looking for Monterey Bay. This is a
17' - 60' deep. The bottom is sandy with good picnic spot.
anemones, sponges, nudibranchs, octopus
and various rockfish. MOSS COVE (SPANISH BAY) 5’ - 25’
Beg.- Adv. Entry at Spanish Bay parking
CHASE REEF Inner: 30’ - 60’/Outer: 40’ for wreck diving: CG 256 (1933), a 75’
- 110’ Int.- Adv. Boat or kayak dive(s) to prohibition era rum chaser off Asilomar
Inner Reef, 400’ offshore, or Outer Reef State Beach; and Roderick Dhu (1873), a
at 600’+ offshore. Thick kelp, sheer walls, 1573-ton bark near the parking lot.
mertridium and giant rose anemones and
pelagic species abound. Gray whales POINT JOE 25’ - 30’ Int.- Adv. Entry at
migrate past. Caution: Exposed to open Restless Sea parking for wreck diving: SS
ocean conditions. Celia, (1906), a lumber ship N of Pt. Joe;
Paul (1896), a livestock carrier (yes, the
CORAL STREET 10’ - 60’ Beg.- Adv. animals were saved), S of Pt. Joe. Many
Rocky beach entry or kayak dive to kelp early mariners crashed on these rocks
and boulders. Scallops and abalone are possibly believing they were near the
found here along with rockfish, cabezon entry to Monterey Bay.
and monkeyface eel. Caution: Often
rough. CHINA ROCK From here to Point Joe
Chinese fishermen camped in lean-to tents
in the late 1800's to early 1900's.
