Mckenzie Bite

McKenzie Bite is a nice dive site which can be found on the Saanich Peninsula as can be found in the Dive Site map that I provide in links section.

The Dive site is a bit of hike to get to from the parking lot but its worth it when you get down to the water.
To get to the dive site you have to park at the end of the road and then hike down the path, you will see a little dirt path heading towards the water on the right after a 10min. walk. If you haven't been to the site it would make sense to walk to the site without gear and check the path out just to make sure that you are comfortable to walk all the way down with all gear or if you rather make a couple shuttle runs. 

The dive site has a small dive boat wreck as well as couple rock walls which are very popular with the local aquatic life. The visibility though does vary extremely from 2ft at times to 70ft. It is hard to predict the daily visibility and it does change rapidly. The dive does offer something for everyone between 20ft-80ft there is life as well as some interesting things to see along the entire depth range.

Maximum depth that can be reached on that dive is 108ft but most of the interesting things are happening around 20ft-80ft.

Here are some picture I took on the Mckenzie Bite dive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

The octopus was hiding but you can see a little of it.