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Poor Knights Blog

New Year looking epic on the Tutukaka Coast

Diving at the Poor Knights in December with Dive! Tutukaka

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.  

November 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands

November 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands with Dive! Tutukaka

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

October 2015 diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka

September 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands

September diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka

September diving at the Poor Knights Islands with Dive! Tutukaka

August diving at the Poor Knights.

August diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka

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

July diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka

May 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands

May diving at Poor Knights Islands with Dive! Tutukaka

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 Islands, with Dive! Tutukaka

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…

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…

Birds of the Poor Knights Islands

The islands are noisy. Bird, reptile and insect life is prolific.  Seabirds are the making of the islands. The under story of vegetation is riddled by the burrows of millions of seabirds and in some places it resembles low tide in a mangrove estuary. If you happen to be on the islands in late August Read More…

Reptiles, Insects and snails of the Poor Knights Islands

The Poor Knights are renowned for their diversity of reptiles, which include the northernmost population of tuatara, also many lizard species two of which are endemic. There is also a remarkable diversity of endemic or nationally scarce invertebrates. On the Poor Knights reptiles play a huge role in the ecology of the Islands forests; there Read More…

Poor Knights Islands Marine Life

Recreational diving is the biggest activity at the Poor Knights today. Jacques Cousteau rated the Islands as one of the top ten dive spots in the world. In hindsight the Poor Knights should have been a fully protected marine reserve from the start. In 1971 Parliament created the marine reserves act and in 1981 the Read More…

Weeds and Weed Programme on the Poor Knights Islands

In 1990 as Tutukaka Marina Manager I created a garden of Poor Knights plants for visitors and locals, Northland Department of Conservation were impressed by the idea and granted a permit to collect plants from the islands. A party of elders of the descendants of the Poor Knights people was visiting the islands to investigate Read More…

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Diving at the Poor Knights in December with Dive! Tutukaka

New Year looking epic on the Tutukaka Coast

With some amazing diving from December, and a cracker of a summer ahead in 2016, you really … [More...]

November 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands with Dive! Tutukaka

November 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands

November 2015 diving at the Poor Knights Islands with Dive! Tutukaka … [More...]

October 2015 diving at the Poor Knights with Dive! Tutukaka

October 2015 diving at the Poor Knights

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