Had an awesome forecast so headed out to Mayor Island yesterday, one place that almost always has the potential to be fantastic diving but almost always disappoints. Visibility was once again rubbish, which seems to be a common theme for me in the last 3 outings.
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| Northern Side of the Island within the Reserve |
The large pins and obsidian layers on the island make for stunning scenery. Back in the early days the obsidian was prized by Maori for cutting instruments and was traded all over the north island.
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| Now where were those underwater pins? |
We attempted to find some uncharted submerged pins that I had come across a few years ago but to no avail.
Attempted to get some split level shots here as diving was fairly uninteresting.
Once back on boat spotted a seal on the rocks so went back to see if I could tempt it into the water to play.
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| Kna |
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| Only one of 3 boats out there on the day |
Had a dive at the never fail spot for crayfish but lots of little bugs and only takeable ones were in berry.
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| Trusty boat for the day |
Went from rocky shallow dive spot to 30m at Tuhua Reef looking for better clarity but surprisingly Tuhua Reef was down to 3m visibility on the surface which was quite unexpected for a place re-known for it's diving. Had large amounts of Splendid Perches 30m down so was not altogether a loss.
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| Large numbers of Splendid Perch |
And no fish for dinner.
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