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 […]
22/3/2017 (617) Perhaps I should not tell anybody about this dive. I tried a spot in the urban area of Milford. The beach is lovely there, but the visibility is usually close to nothing, the bottom is quite flat, silty and it’s shallow. The weather was great, it was calm and right before the high […]
18/3/2017 (616) I went to Mahurangi Harbour to see the results of the stormy weather and floods from a week ago. I dive in the harbour mostly for nostalgic reasons, but also for surprises. On a good day there can be plenty of usual nudibranches, sea hares there; I saw seahorses, rare nudibranches and a […]
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. […]
22/2/2017 (614) A dive at Goat Island after almost a week of rain. It seems a lot of dirt from farmland around got into water. There patches of it on the coarse sandy bottom … especially close to the shore. Visibility improved a lot in deeper water, but it was not great. I met a […]
5/2/2017 (613) My wife Ivana was keen to go as the ocean is getting warm (according to New Zealand standards of course). Encouraged by his last successful dive Adam was keen to join us … thanks to a much warmer wetsuit we’ve found for him. We went to Matheson Bay, it was very crowded on […]