Visibility improves somewhat toward the point but is still usually poor, falling in the 10 foot range. I had a dive here years ago, however, with 70-feet of visibility. The Chocolate Lobster Dive will not be held over the rocky reefs but rather at the sand flats and jetty to the southeast. Water visibility is a more consistent 10 to 15 feet. The bottom slopes gently out to 20 to 25 feet just beyond the jetty.
Coarse sand is home for hermit crabs, small clams, and sand dollars.
The water around the jetty is interesting but surgy. The sand can swirl in the surge dropping viz to zero. Schools of tiny bait fish provide food for barred sand bass on the bottom and an occasional kelp bass. Urchins and stars occupy the rocks. Like the reefs across the cove, crabs are abundant.