Tom Lightfoot's Home Site

These photos are from a trip to Hornby Island in August of 2007. I've been diving both sides of Whaling Station bay for decades but Agate Beach and Toby Islet were new to me. All of these sites provide the typical Hornby fare of sandstone and conglomerate rock providing a home for sea urchins, sea stars and a wide variety of fish. Each site though has its own unique set of attractions.

This was my first time to Hornby since getting my new camera so I wanted to take a lot of pictures of the typical things that you'd see around the island.

Whaling Station Bay North

Lots of sea urchins on the rocks	Rock crab	Jeuvenile rockfish hiding amongst the spines	There is a large bed of eelgrass just offshore
An anemone low in the gravel

Whaling Station Bay South

Kelp crab covered in algae	Lined nudibranch on the wall	Another lined nudibranch	Dungeness crab talking with a flounder
Dungeness crab burying itself in the sand	A very small skate with its tail missing

Agate Beach

Copper rockfish	A view of the beach from the bluffs in Heliwell Park	Looking further out to sea	Painted greenling
Kelp greenling	Sun star	Crimson anemone at 22m	Kelp greenling

Toby Island

Walking from Ford's Cove to Toby Islet	Amazing rock formations and textures along the way	Rock looks frothy, making a nice non-skid surface	Toby connects with Hornby on a low tide
Ochre stars in the shallows	XXX star and leather star in deeper water	Big lingcod hanging out	Another big ling cruising around