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 […]
11/10/2016 (599) Due to the wind from the east the open coast was not diveable. I went for a dive to Ti Point wharf to shoot some macro and perhaps to see a pipefish or a seahorse. Water was calm at high tide, yet the visibility was terrible, around 1 metre. Anyway, I checked a […]
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 […]