Spearfishing in Tairua and a Surprise Encounter with Orcas (video)

Oli’s 30th birthday scavenger hunt extravaganza ended with a spearfishing tour out of Tairua. At the end of a successful day of hunting for kingfish, we were gifted a close encounter with a pod of orcas. Claire and I had gotten out of the water for a bit of a warm up break when we…

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Marlborough Sounds – Diving, Fishing, & Havelock’s Famous Green Mussels

Marlborough Sounds are so full of marine life, and even writing this a couple months later has been some of the best diving (scuba and free diving) we have encountered in New Zealand. On a bike ride one day we happened upon the Waikawa Dive Centre just outside Picton. They had a sale going on,…

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