18/10/2016 (601) Another dive in the Goat Island marine reserve with some mishaps, plenty of pleasant surprises and a really sad one: Gauges left at home While I was finishing packing my gear, a courier brought a package for me. I was excited about its content and forgot to my gauges (a computer and a […]
When I write about diving, it’s usually about how peaceful it can be. You even can get into a kind of a meditative state. However, every time I look at this picture, it reminds me of something completely opposite. It reminds me of those tail-less Horten flying wings, developed in Nazi Germany during the World […]
It’s been more than a half of a year, yet I still have vivid memories on my diving in Reotahi marine reserve near Whangarei. Yes, the water was murky, the current was very strong, but the sea life was amazing. In the shallows there were those underwater “towers” reaching a couple of metres from the […]
This spotty wrasse joined me in Matheson Bay when I got to the area with stacks of these brown sea weeds. Technically they are not weeds, i.e. they are no plants, but the locals call them that way. It stayed with me for a couple of minutes, hiding in the weeds, then coming out of […]
13/10/2016 (600) The strong wind has ceased and changed its direction so the east coast was diveable again. I went to the Leigh area, checked Goat Island first, but the swell was quite unpleasant. I moved to Matheson Bay. The visibility on the beach did not look great, but the sea was calm so I […]
For a long time I’ve been intrigued by the wild, unearthly colours of sponges. My experience with them was very limited while I was living in Europe. There are (almost) no sponges in fresh water, also they are not so typical for the underwater scenery of Mediterranean Sea. When we moved to New Zealand and I […]