One of the house reef's literally across the street from Dive Wellington is known as Mermaid's Kitchen. It's in a marine reserve so it's in great shape. A lot of wild life and plant life to be found. The weather was phenomenal and the visibility was great.

Shortly after swimming past the rocks you see above, we look a left turn and came across these blue moki fish feeding in the kelp.

Blue moki

Later on there were a number of swim-throughs we did. We ran into some crayfish on some of them.

Swim-through

Finally, towards the end of the dive, we discovered a collection of squid eggs! The seemed awfully exposed to predators to me but they appeared to be untouched.

Squid eggs

Great day for a shore dive.

Location: Wellington, Taputeranga Marine Reserve, New Zealand

Dive Number:   126 Bottom Time: 53m Time In: 2:38 p.m. Tank In: Max Depth: 40.00 ft Table Used:

Mix:   Air Safety Stop: Time Out: 3:31 p.m. Tank Out: Average Depth: 25.00 ft Start Pressure Group:

Surface Interval:   End Pressure Group:

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