Andrew and Sarah Brown

30
Jan

Andrew and Rebecca Brown talk about thier NZ travels in their blog...
Tutukaka, a couple of hours drive North of Auckland, is where we caught our dive boat, Calypso, to the Poor Knights Islands.

Discovered by Captain Cook in 1769 the Islands are now a marine and wildlife reserve with a unique climate. The diving there is nothing short of spectacular and the temperate (flippin’ freezing!) waters meant it was a great contrast to the Great Barrier Reef as there is no coral or reef. Instead the sea is inhabited by eagle, sting and manta rays, moray eels, hundreds of fish (including tropical washed in by the Eastern Australian Current) and home to some amazing underwater coves and a forest of sea kelp. We sailed through the Southern Hemisphere’s largest sea arch and also into the largest sea cave in the world which had such good acoustics they’ve actually held boat based music concerts and opera there.

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