This is what I really love: To lay on the ground and peek into the forest. To watch the small inhabitants living in the shadows of the trees. To admire the sun rays penetrating the tree tops. All of that in the fairy-tale country only a few metres under the ocean surface.
Thorntail stingray (long-tail stingray) Dasyatis thetidis on sandy bottom at the edge of rocky reef. I am not sure how rare/common these species are around the New Zealand coast, I meet 20+ eagle rays per one stingray. An observation: When I meet an eagle ray, it gets scared pretty easily and flies away. With stingrays it’s […]
Fish pictures not showing the fish’ faces or with fish turning away from the camera are usually not received very well. I believe they can be all right. It all depends on many factors. E.g. if it is obvious the fish got scared by me, it cannot help the picture. On the other hand if […]
I am saying late summer but it’s actually autumn already. My last visit to Goat Island proved to be very fruitful. I did not swim across the channel to the island, but followed the coast to the right side of the beach. As you can see from the pictures the terrain varies a lot. You can […]
Today I almost didn’t get into water after I saw the swell and the crowds on snorkelers on the beach. I am glad I did, it was a real fish soup. Schools of trevally, snapper, various wrasses, butterfish, parore, kelpfish, red moki, kahawai, leatherjacket and who knows what else. I was missing blue cod and […]
An old issue of Dive NZ got to my hands some time ago. There was that article about a good shore diving in Whangarei in the magazine. The author liked it a lot, also he said the place was to become a marine reserve soon. I checked the Department of Conservation website and it was […]