With an easy entry, a controlled environment, and abundant small and medium-sized marine life, Whiskey Cove is a perfect patch dive. Divers can explore the flat rock face inch by inch in the calm water. Some ledges with scattered rocks and a second rock face past a narrow sand wedge can also be reached south of the main rock. Depths at the base of the rocks run from 25 to 75 feet. Whiskey Cove is a dive site to explore slowly and carefully.
Little gems adhere to the rock face.
Beautiful janolus fuscus, cuthona, opalescent, alabaster, and brown spotted nudibranchs are everywhere. Tiny juvenile rock crabs with white striped carapaces, small multi-coloured hermit crabs, and other crab species are present in large numbers. Tide pool sculpins, scaleyhead sculpins, sole, flounder, coonstripe shrimp, and decorator crabs play along the rock face. Some large Dungeness and red rock crabs also scuttle about. Sunflower stars, ochre stars, false Pacific jingle shells, mussels, and plumose anemones are found.