Dive Report: Mangawhai Cliff Walk

1 hr snorkel
30 March 2024
High tide
Vis 6m
Wave height 1m
Wind 20 knots

Nice swim given it had been raining the day before. First time seeing centros on this coast, a thousand kina, large barren rocks, some small patches of ecklonia but carpophyllum the dominant remaining flora. Fish count below:

7 or so red moki a few additional juveniles
1 30cm snapper
A few parore
1 silver drummer
A few small goatfish
2 hiwihiwi
A school of piper
A school of kahawai
A few tiny schools of sweep (both types)
1 small school trevally
Many spotty, all sizes
1 banded wrasse
2 smallish leatherjacket

Posted on March 31, 2024 02:32 AM by shaun-lee