21/4/2017 (618) It was a long swim over the areas where flat rocky platforms mix with sand. It was also a swim in quite a murky water. Actually I don’t remember such a dirty water at Goat Island. Once I got to the deeper water with kelp forest, the visibility improved, but not much. And […]
14/3/2017 (615) The wild weather was over (at least in Auckland) so we packed the car and headed north to Leigh for a dive in the Goat Island marine reserve. The whole beach was covered with rotting kelp … as was the bottom in the shallows. Water had that tea-like tint and it was dirty. […]
In most cases when I need a picture of a scuba diver, I make a selfie. I would prefer to use somebody else as the model, but it’s not often possible. Quite often I dive alone. When I have a buddy, he/she is a regular buddy, not a model. I often chase her/him during the […]
It happened to me a couple of times: wearing a sidemount harness I was walking to the beach carrying my single tank on my shoulder. A diver ask me if I was a technical diver. The question caused a smile on my face. No, I was not a technical diver. I was even not going […]
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 […]
My friend Konstantin partially hidden in brown seaweeds. I use the word “seaweeds” because it is commonly used for this kind of water plants, but they are actually kelp. I’ve made this picture just out of Matheson Bay in Leigh on the left side of the beach. We swam through the narrow channel between the […]