Another good day at Mahurangi Harbour, the see was absolutely calm. I came a little late the low tide flow was starting but the conditions were still very good (for the harbour). As usually I was swimming toward Pudding Island turned to the right a little to get to the shallow reef at that place. […]

The warm dry Indian summer is over, some heavy rain came to Auckland. After a full day of raining a blue sky appeared. I could resist and went to check my “fun” location of Browns Bay. The ocean was very calm, almost like a mirror with a great view showing Rangitoto, Motutapu, Rakino and Tiritiri […]

I came across a couple of my old photographs recently, both from the fresh water and from the sea. They reminded me of some of our pleasant adventures underwater but also of the fact how little I knew what I had been doing when I was making pictures underwater at that time. I had a […]

The weather forecast looked great for March 21th (Friday last week). Sunny, just a light wind. I decided it was time to go to Goat Island again. I haven’t been there for about two months because of the weather, my occupation somewhere else but also because it’s a very popular location so it’s usually busy […]

Last week was no good for diving the eastern bays, the wind was too strong and water turbid. I had to cancel a couple of dives I hope my friends were not too disappointed. On Thursday I cancelled another one and headed to Mahurangi Harbour which is partially sheltered. By saying “partially” I mean its […]