With some amazing diving from December, and a cracker of a summer ahead in 2016, you really shouldn’t put it off any more! Get amongst it. The Poor Knights Islands are incredible.
Tutukaka Coast Blog
General updates and information about the spectacular Tutukaka Coast and surrounding areas
Summer 2016 is here!
The water temperature currently is about 17 degrees with great visibility of 15-20 metres, and the diving is amazing! Current sightings have been mola-mola, manta, and huge schools of surface feeding fish. The Buller’s shearwaters are out in force, and the islands are ALIVE! Book a trip snorkelling, diving, paddle boarding or kayaking in this Read More…
November 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands
November 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands with Dive! Tutukaka
October 2015 diving at the Poor Knights
October 2015 diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka
September 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands
September diving at the Poor Knights Islands with Dive! Tutukaka
August diving at the Poor Knights.
August 2015 diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka.
July diving at the Poor Knights
July diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka
May 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands
Diving in the month of May with Dive! Tutukaka, at the Poor Knights Islands.
April 2015 at the Poor Knights Islands
April diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka. Have a closer look!
Campbell Live Reports on the Poor Knights
Tale of two waterways: How pristine is our water? When French explorer Jacques Cousteau named the Poor Knights Islands as one of the top 10 dive sites in the world, he helped spark a global love affair with the rocky Northland islands. The Knights now attract tens of thousands of divers every year, who come Read More…
Winter Wonderland – Without the Snow.
The Poor Knights is renown for its temperate water diving, that means it is not as tropical as the tropics, but certainly not as cold as you think either. The water has a nice balance in between, and the clarity is extra-ordinarily clear. Hobbits and snowy Middle Earth mountain passes are down the other end Read More…
The lure of fresh fish in Tutukaka.
The Tutukaka Coast has always been on the list of places for me to visit, its location just two and a half hours north of Auckland, makes it the perfect destination for a day trip. The scenery up this way is spectacular, the roads are great, and the beaches are in pristine condition. It’s no Read More…
Pohutakawa on the Coast
Guy & Hannah just finished a quick drive around the coast collecting Pohutukawa flowers. Last year was an exceptional year for Pohutukawa flowering and this year is not far behind. They stopped in at Lyle Woolley’s of Woolley’s Bay to take a photo of a small tree he planted some years ago which as you Read More…
Tutukaka Gallery opens again for Summer!
A regular institution over the summer months, the artists come out of winter hibernation with some incredible new works and ideas. Steve Moase and Great New Artists will be in residence and have their works for sale at the Tutukaka Gallery. For the sixth year in a row, there will an exciting new line up of art, sculpture, jewellery, glass, ceramics and Read More…
Coastal Weddings
“Providing you with the Wedding you deserve” Coastal Weddings offer wedding packages on the stunning Tutukaka Coast and other parts of Northland which include venue hire for ceremonies and receptions and accommodation for you and your guests.
Dive! Tutukaka
Dive! Tutukaka is New Zealand’s premier full-service dive charter operator, servicing the Poor Knights Islands; “the best-sub-tropical-diving in the world”. Our friendly team will tailor the day to suit you; you won’t be out of your depth, and neither will you be frustrated. With purpose-built dive boats that take you to a site that matches Read More…
Guy Bowden Talks about The Poor Knights Islands – Introduction
The Poor Knights have always featured in my life. In the early sixties my parents bought a farm on the Tutukaka Coast where I grew up with the rest of my family and where my wife and two children live today. It just so happens that our farm is the closest point of the main Read More…
Poor Knights Islands Geology
The Poor Knights are located 20 kms off-shore midway between the Bay of Islands and Whangarei Harbor. The Islands have been isolated from the mainland NZ for longer than any other group apart from the Three Kings Islands 60kms northwest of Cape Reinga. What remains today are heavily eroded rims of a large volcano, which Read More…
History of the Poor Knights Islands
According to the descendants a population of some 3 to 4 hundred people inhabited the islands for many generations. The islands were occupied by a sub tribe or hapu of the Ngatiwai people. The first account of a European to sight the islands was Captain Cook on the 25th November 1769. As a child I, Read More…
Plants of the Poor Knights
From a distance as you approach the islands from the west they appear to be covered almost entirely with Pohutukawa, Metrosideros excelsa. As you move closer you can see the caves and pitted cliffs where in any crevice wide enough to hold the smallest amount of soil plants will take hold, coastal tussock (Chinochloa brommoides), Read More…
