When I'm not on the farm...

I've been doing an awful lot of diving this summer. I learned to dive way back in the early 90's so have quite a few hundred dives under my belt. I sort of stopped for a couple of years but have totally got back into it this summer. Lloyd is not really into diving to the same extent I am, so this year I've been lucky enough to find a brilliant dive buddy in our friend Dan and have also been on a few dives that have been organised by Dive North (who are spectacular!) Lloyd and I have joined the bay of Islands underwater club. So all in all it's been a really busy summer for diving.

I've dived the HMS Canterbury and The Rainbow Warrior  in the last few days. I thought I wasn't that keen on wreck dives and far preferred pretty reefs, teeming with fish, however the HMS Canterbury was something else!!

I can't take credit for any of these photos ( Dive North took them ) but I thought you might like to see under the water. ( Mum!)

This first one is the Rainbow Warrior looming out at us.

I'm the one with the pink tank on at the back -  looking up at the Rainbow Warrior

And some nice underwater stuff...

 

An Octopus

A moray eel.

Lots to see down there!

 So if any of you are divers ( or not!) and are ever in this neck of the woods and want to see what the Bay of Islands has to offer, I can't recommend Dive North enough.

Now, these photos I did take... We dived the Poor Knights Islands a while back and they are right at the top of my favourite dives ever!

Lloyd right in the middle

Me in some kelp

"swim with the fishes"

 Sting ray.