Titlow Beach

Description

Titlow Beach is the site of an old burned down pier, or some sorts. The main attraction of this site is the remains of the end of the pier, and a bottle garden to the south of the pier. From looking from shore, the end of the pier looks like a ring of pilings, out in the middle of the water, about 100 yards off shore. There is a family oriented park there, so it might be a good place to bring the family and make a day of it.

Location

You can get accurate directions from the book:

"Northwest Shore Dives"

Comments

Read the description and compass headings for this site in the "Northwest Shore Dives" Book. The ring of pilings itself is quite entertaining. The pilings are covered in white metridium, and life is quite abundant here. I have seen large a large wolf eel and several large octopus snooping about here, so it can be a real treat. The bottle garden is rather unimpressive, and looks like a bunch on bottles on the bottom. Hmm, imagine that. It can be an entertaining dive, especially at night.

Titlow is also a good alternate site to find some friendly wolf eels. To find the wolfies, walk down to the beach and look to your left. You should see a pair of lone pilings sticking out of the water a good 100-200 yds up from the larger ring of pilings. Walk/swim out to the pair of pilings and descend. Swim perpendicular to the beach until you find the mini-clay walls in around 35 feet of water. On one of those walls, pretty much straight out from the pilings, you should find a clump of 2-3 wolf eels. They are usually friendly, and like handouts of fish, crab or an urchin. If you look close enough, you should find an easy half-dozen good sized octopus in the same area. It's a set of little walls, so if you don't find them at first, keep looking. It usually takes me a few minutes to find these critters, but all I can say is that they are almost dead-ahead straight out from the two lone pilings.

I give this site two Thumb Up on the Parker Scale because of the chance that you might find some wolfies and octopus here, and it is a pretty cool night dive!