I love diving. It allows me to experience the world which is completely different from what we find above the water surface. Colours are often crazy though nobody can see them. Animals look like plants. Tall plants don’t have solid structures to support them, they use floats. Balls with sharp needles and no legs are […]
In the past I wrote about Mahurangi Harbour a couple of times. It’s silty and the bottom is flat, yet I dive it regularly; perhaps because it often surprises me. My dive there on last Wednesday was no exception … the harbour offered a couple of surprises. Coral tree … there is that sunken tree […]
Last November (2014) I went for a shore dive to the Leigh area. I was not sure which spot to choose, actually I was not sure if diving would be possible at all due to the storm a couple of days earlier. The sea was calm again yet there was a possibility the coastal areas […]
Note: This was originally a separate page, I moved it to blog. The article was published in DiveNZ a couple of years ago. All the local divers know that, Auckland is a great city with nice beaches but not very good for scuba diving. Especially if you want to dive from the shore. Murky waters, […]
I earn my living developing web applications. I usually stress the word ‘application’ because as soon as people hear the word ‘web’ they think of web sites. What I mean is I use sw frameworks like Codeigniter, Symfony or Django to create custom made-to-measure logic. Also the applications are not accessible to the public most […]
It’s the end of August, one can feel the coming spring here in Auckland. Last Friday I happened to get to the Browns Bay beach. It was around noon, low tide, I went for a short walk to its left corner (left when facing Rangitoto). Walks like that one usually prove quite productive. They show […]