A short footage from our recent trip to Maitai Bay in Northland. We met this school of juvenile blue maomao while snorkeling in shallow water above rocky reef covered with brown weeds. Slovak Kratučké video z nedávneho výletu do zátoky Maitai v Northland. Stádo mladých “blue moamao” sme stretli počas šnorchlovania okolo útesu porasteného hnedými […]
We went for a camping family trip to the Far North, to Karikari Peninsula. There is that very popular holiday spot there in Maitai Bay with DOC campground. Local tribes announced a ban on fishing and collecting seafood in the bay recently due to the degradation of the environment. As far as I know they […]
02/01/2018 We took our friends, the Kailing family, for snorkeling to Goat Island. I was a bit skeptical about the water condition due to the wind, but we were surprised by a very calm water. It was low tide so the water was shallow through the whole channel. Also it was very clear there even […]
October 2017 I am well behind with on-line logging of my dives. We had a busy time after our return from Europe. It’s not that I was not diving, I just didn’t have enough time to write posts about it. Here are some pictures from the Leigh area, they are all from shore dives. Slovak […]
16/6/2017 (622) I had plans for another lazy dive, however, the current in the channel at Goat Island was so strong that I surfaced exhausted. The channel was full of juvenile trevally, snapper and goatfish. Goatfish were digging in the coarse sand on the bottom, trevally and snapper were hovering in midwater facing the current. There […]
9/6/2017 (621) It was not what the title suggests. Goat Island was fine, I was lazy. It was my another dive with a half-full tank. Also I didn’t want to swim far away so I decided not to cross the channel, but to explore the overhangs and crevices under the rocky platforms on the right […]