Even after years of diving “Pacific weeds” I am still fascinated every time I immerse myself into those forests. Look at this picture. There is nothing special about it, yet it stirs my emotions. That feeling of freshness, of constant movement, of lightness with which the sturdy fronds float in the water. And if you […]
There are plenty of beautiful places like this one around Goat Island. Dense kelp forest on top of the rocks. Colourful invertebrate life on the walls and under overhangs. Reef fish going in and coming out of cracks. I’ve made this particular image in the area to the left from the island (when you look […]
Not a very usual sight, a large Cook’s turban shell (Cookia sulcata) climbing up brown kelp Ecklonia radiata. As far as I know, they usually crawl on rocks where they graze short algae. Perhaps they can find something tasty on the fronds as well. Often where you can find turban shells, you meet stingrays as well, […]
Another picture of my friend Konstantin. We were diving off Matheson Bay in Leigh that day. It was a long swim to get out of the bay, but those walls were worth it. Underwater “climbing” is so easy, one deep breath and you are climbing up. You breath out and you’re climbing down. You can […]
I’ve made this picture close to the Ti Point wharf at the mouth of Whangateau Harbour near Leigh. On the right side of the wharf, basically right in front of that boat mini-ramp there is a maze of huge boulders. The area is not big, but it’s packed with interesting features. One of them, the […]
Leatherjackets are so cute. A big eye, a tiny mouth shaped for a kiss, sandpaper-like skin, a paintbrush-shaped tail and dorsal and anal fins used for propulsion. Their body look stiff, but I don’t know if it really is. I remember spotting a juvenile leatherjacket with my son Adam from the floating jetty on Puhoi […]