This full-service park has a gentle current, which gives divers the freedom to dive whenever they like—independent of slack tides. You will find a large eelgrass bed filled with fish, such as tube-snouts, black-eyed gobies, and sticklebacks. After 40’ depth, you will find tube-dwelling anemones. These anemones feed with their long, graceful tentacles.

Known for dramatic daybreaks on clear mornings, this tiny day-use park is quieter than its northern neighbor, Dosewallips State Park. Triton Cove's well-maintained, ADA-accessible boat launch also makes this a prime spot for in-season diving, fishing and crabbing – and you can fish all day long.

Park at the turnout along the road. Climb steeply down tree roots to get to the beach. Surface swim to the left to find the wall.

While diving at Potlatch is less dramatic than other sites in the area, if you are just getting your flippers wet, this is a great place to start out. This shore diving spot is easy to get to, has showers to wash off gear, and is a great place to get comfortable with equipment and techniques.

Outside of Lilliwaup is a dive site comfortably accessed by boat (but you can free swim to it also). Dubbed “the knuckle,” this dive site consists of a series of rock formations, rising like a mini range of mountains from the ocean floor. Since this formation is farther out and more exposed to currents, this site usually has excellent visibility and has lots to see. Ling cod lay eggs at this protected site, with resident wolf eel and octopus populations. Since the rise of “the knuckle” is rapid, the site can be difficult to locate.

Scuba lessons, equipment, and tours, as well as Hood Canal charter boat services.

Encounters with Giant Pacific Octopus and Wolf Eels are common in relatively shallow water and lingcod, rockfish, nudibranchs, crab and more are ever present. Plant life gives spectacular color to underwater walls and rock structures. Typically, water temperature averages from a low of 45 degrees in the winter to a high of 50-60 degrees in the summer. We do not rent scuba equipment however are fully equipped to fill scuba air tanks.

The shore dive at Glen Ayr is great for both beginners and seasoned divers! To the north of the dock are deep walls that house the Giant Pacific Octopus and to the south of the dock is a rubble field that is great for macro photography. The depth ranges from 20′ to 130′.

Olympic Peninsula’s only NAUI Dive Center offers guided dives, lessons and equipment sales.

Scuba lessons, equipment and tours as well as Hood Canal charter boat services.

Scuba lessons, equipment and tours as well as Hood Canal charter boat services.

Sunrise Resort is the place to visit if your goal is to be blanketed in quiet tranquility in a natural setting just steps from some of the Pacific Northwest’s most incredible dive sites! In addition to diving, you’ll find plenty more to see and do in the area, and right here at the resort. Fish, shrimp, boat, kayak, sunbathe, swim, picnic & BBQ, or soak in the waterfront hot tub while taking in the views.

Homesteaded by Colbein John and Bertha Sund prior to statehood, our canal property embodies who the Sund Family is; connected by the land and family history. The generations who have enjoyed this property have developed a strong sense of place and a fierce desire to protect it. Past generations have laid the foundation and framework for future generations to continue to create memories and share this special place with all who wish to visit.

Octopus Hole Conservation Area' is defined as those waters, tidelands, and bedlands of Hood Canal within a line projected due east from the western shore of Hood Canal on latitude 47°27'01"N for 200 yards, thence southerly 628 yards parallel to the high water mark to latitude 47°26'40", thence due west to shore