Pulali Point

Pulali Point is a boat dive off Brinnon, on the west side of Dabob Bay in the northern arm of Hood Canal. The point itself is marked by a large green-and-white navigation aid, and the diving covers a complex of walls rather than a single face. Emerald Diving publishes coordinates for two distinct faces within a couple hundred yards of each other, and a third face on the opposite side of the point is treated as part of the same site by working charters. Rocky fingers begin at about 40 feet and extend outward in walls, crevices, and ledges past 150 feet, with the deepest wall running beyond 170.

The point has been profiled as one of the signature wall complexes in Dabob Bay and ranks among the most-dived boat sites in central Hood Canal. The Washington Scuba Alliance maintains a mooring buoy on one of the faces, and a smaller dive-site marker sits in about 35 feet of water on another. Sources use different names for the individual walls, so the site is best understood as one point with several rock faces rather than a fixed set of named features.

The complex sits inside a rocky reef biome. Wolf eels and giant Pacific octopus occupy the crevices throughout the wall complex. Deeper sections of the rock carry giant nudibranchs and red brotulas, which draw photographers to the site. Only scuba is practical at these depths, and the walls are a photography site rather than a spearfishing one.

Access is boat-only. Seabeck is the primary public ramp, roughly 6 miles east across the canal. Dabob Bay's geography shelters the site from strong tidal exchange, and it is diveable outside slack for most of the tide, though wind-driven surface currents can build during large water movements. A distinct halocline is a spring and summer signature here: the top 20 feet often has only about 3 feet of visibility, then opens to 30 or more below 50, with over 50 feet documented on good days. Take is prohibited under 2026 Marine Area 12 rules, which close all bottomfish and forage fish, and wolf eel and giant Pacific octopus are non-take species statewide.