Take a Dip in the Deep with Diver Bob! Cool Creatures Abound in Our Salish Sea — Creatures Like These

The waters surrounding Vancouver Island teem with marine life

Judy Millar
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readNov 24, 2022

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A fleshy-faced grey wolf eel with a protruding incisor studies diver Bob Simpson, as its mate stares out from an underwater cave in the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia).
A wolf eel and its mate (in cave) study Diver Bob. Photo © Bob Simpson, used by permission.

I’ve lived on lovely Vancouver Island for the past 15 years, but I had no idea how much fascinating marine life lurked in our local waters until I met a 73-year-old fellow-retiree I call…

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Judy Millar
ILLUMINATION

Canadian humour writer. Comedic storyteller. Overthinker. 😂 Words in Reader’s Digest 🇨🇦, Writer’s Digest, Medium + judy@judymillar.ca Twitter: @judymillar