The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
The bay is very kelpy with some large rocky parts (from memory...feel free to amend!). Out towards the end of the reef it drops off a bit and there is a lot of life with fish seeming to congregate there. There is a good spot here to sit and take in your surroundings on your safety stop too - see photo!
Rocky and weeds with some sandy spots. avg depht 15m - 20m
A Cave which is full of sea food
CRAYS CRAYS CRAYS
Rough water in N / NE and NW if the sweel is up.
and rocks that will hurt the boat
Heading out of the heads turn left and there is a nice BIG rock that is Awash and low tide. drop in by the rock
If you jump in on the eastern side of the point you find yourself in a fairly shallow bay kelpy dropping off fairly quickly to the north to sand flats. A reef runs along the west side of the bay and about a third of the way along is the hole in the rock. Divers swim through here then pop out the other side to slightly deeper rocky terrain with sandy channels.
This site is a marine reserve so you cannot take anything out or discharge anything into it.
The topography at this site is great with a rocky reef full of of cracks, crevices and canyons. Plenty of kelp as well as invert encrusted patches on walls. Plenty to explore!
This site is mostly well lit with lots of kelp, lessonia is quite dominant. There are also some shaded steep walls and little guts and other darker areas for encrusting life to thrive.
Usual coral walls and holes, shark spots, and a wreck. Used Beluga Diving when we stayed , professional informative and friendly.
Sharks, turtles, tropical fish,
Tropical fish with spines
Vava'u is smaller island short flight from the main island
Dived off from the beach, hired the gear from the local resort, I only went out as far as the reef as the locals warned me not to go further as thats where the sharks feed
visability was endless, water was warm and the fish life was great
Normal tropical hazards, sharks (never saw any) sea snakes (saw a few) and things that sting. There were strong rips close to the reef.
Get in a taxi and head south, that easy
This rocky coastline faces south and is exposed to the full force of the southerlies which regularly pound Wellington’s southern shores. A couple of days of northerlies though and this site is a cracker and one of the most dramatic and convenient of Wellington’s dive sites. Long rocky reefs extend out SSW with steep walled channels and gravely flats between them with shaded walls prolific with encrusting life and lush mixed kelp forests in well lit areas.
Cape Rodney to Okakari Point Marine Reserve (more commonly known as Leigh or Goat Island) was established over 30 years ago and was New Zealand's first marine reserve. Previously charachterised by barren rock flats grazed bare by kina (sea urchins), since gaining protection predators such as snapper and rock lobster (crayfish) populations have recovered keeping kina in check and allowing a rich and diverse ecosystem to thrive.
