5-20 metres.

Aquatic Life:

Butterfish, sweep, blue cod, butterfly perch, sea perch, and red and blue moki. Good invertebrate life on walls and rock lobster hidden about the place. A few kingfish and kahawai in summer.

Directions:

Near the entrance to Port Hardy.

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Algal covered reef extending from 5 down to 25 metres.

Aquatic Life:

Sweep, blue cod, butterfly perch, sea perch, red moki and blue moki inhabit the reef. Rock lobster can also be found in cracks and crevices and the more observant can also spot sea horses and nudibranchs. Schools of kingfish and kahawai arrive in summer.

Warnings:

Can be quite exposed in westerly wind or swell.

Directions:

Southwest D'Urville Island

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Large granite boulders with little macroalgae as the granite regularly scours off keeping the boulders clean.

Aquatic Life:

A close look at the boulders reveals triplefins, flatworms and nudibranch, including the large yellow warty Wellington nudibranch. Common fish include blue cod, blue moki, and various wrasses. It is hard to ignore the stars of the show here, the furseals that roll about around you from the colony on Tonga Island itself.

Warnings:

Patch of broken reef starting at 5 metres with a little kelp cover dropping down to sand at 12 metres.

Aquatic Life:

Rock lobster, kina, some scallops. Fish life dominated by spotties and banded wrasse.

Warnings:

Site exposed to northerly winds

Directions:

West of Separation Point
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