Dolphin Beach

Dolphin Beach is a deep wall shore dive in Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, regarded as a favourite among experienced local divers and often paired with the nearby Tyee Cove site as part of a single traverse.

The main wall begins at recreational depths and drops toward 30 m (100 ft), with a maximum depth of 15 m recorded at the shallowest reference point. Navigation centres on a distinctive flat strip of bottom known as the "highway," which runs from the entry point and branches either straight north to the main wall or right toward Tyee Cove. The wall itself is steep, lined with multi-layered rock contours featuring cracks, shelves, and overhangs, and covered in feather stars, large boot sponges, and plumose anemones. Where the wall ends it transitions into sand, giving a clear turnaround cue for divers returning to the entry.

Marine life along the wall and highway includes Giant Pacific octopus, wolf eels, Puget Sound king crabs, quillback rockfish, yelloweye rockfish, vermilion rockfish, copper rockfish, lingcod, ruby octopus, stubby squid, grunt sculpins, and seasonal schools of perch and baitfish. Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are a seasonal highlight, best sought December through February.