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Pacific Hideaway Dive Charters

Diving Charter Boat (English)

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Company description Pacific Hideaway is the ultimate Poor Knights dive boat. A stable catamaran with 7m beam and length of 16.5m, her roomy cockpit provides adequate area for scuba divers to gear up. The walk through transom and dual level stern platforms makes water entry and exit a simple matter. The hot shower in the cockpit and duckboard area is an added luxury. Tea, coffee, soup and snacks are provided on day trips, as is free use of kayaks for those who wish to explore the surface caverns and arches. For longer trips a
nd charters, and for on board social functions we are equipped for catering with a gas stove, microwave, barbecue, fridge, and deep freeze. An air compressor is on board to fill those all important scuba tanks. There are also 15 sets of scuba equipment available for hire and 30 scuba tanks.
The crew of Pacific hideaway are the best. They offer over one hundred years collective scuba diving experience at the Poor Knights Islands.
Our prices:
Day trip, 2 dives $100
Day trip, 2 dives with tanks and weights $125
Day trip, 2 dives with full equipment $190
Sightseers and Snorkellers $75
Snorkelling with wetsuit, mask & fins $100
Wetsuit $20
BCD $20
Reg, octi + console $20
Weightbelt $5
Mask and snorkel $5
Booties $5
Fins $5
Tank hire $10
Airfills $7.50
All equipment $90
Location description: The Poor Knights Islands offers the best scuba diving in New Zealand. Pacific Hideaway is the ultimate way to experience the scuba diving at the Poor Knights Islands
The diving at the Poor Knights is excellent. For many years they have been recognized as New Zealand’s top scuba diving location, and were considered by Jacques Cousteau to be one of the top scuba dive sites of the world. There is greater diversity of underwater habitats and wildlife than elsewhere around New Zealand due to a combination of adjacent deep water, near vertical underwater cliffs, shallow sheltered bays, arches, caves and tunnels bathed by the warm East Auckland current. This has introduced subtropical species such as Spotted Black, Toadstool and Gold Ribbon groupers; Lord Howe Island Coral Fish and Banded Coral Shrimp, all of which have become established. Rare arrivals have included LionFish, Trumpet Fish, Long-nosed Butterfly Fish and occasional Hawksbill Turtles. Seen on most dives are many Moray eels (six species occur), Rays (four species) and schools of many other species including Kingfish up to 40kg.
The caves and arches are home to demoiselles and both pink and blue maomao. On the walls there are colourful sponges, anemones, gorgonian soft corals, bryozoans and tunicates; all of these, together with beautiful nudibranchs make these NZ islands an underwater photographers paradise.
The land Of the Poor Knight Islands, while not being altogether perfect for human habitation, seems to be well suited for a number of seabirds that have made it their home.
The most common are the Bullers shearwater, numbering about 2,000,000 at times. There are also at least 5 other types of petrel, including the Sooty shearwater a.k.a. muttonduck. Perhaps the most spectacular seabird in the area is the gannet, which can often be seen plummeting into a school of baitfish from an altitude of 100 metres or more. Other types of bird to be spotted are the pied shag or cormorant, the native parrot kakariki, the kingfisher, and the harrier hawk.
On the cliff tops, some of which reach 200 metres, there is a pohutokawa forest that flowers a brilliant red in October/November. This is joined by the endemic Poor Knights lily about one month later, its flowers resembling a sparkling crimson bottlebrush.
Some of the more unusual terrestrial wildlife includes a number of indigenous skinks and geckos, but the most famous reptile is definitely the tuatara, a genuine dinosaur. There are also giant centipedes, giant weta’s (one of the heaviest insects in the world- a bit like an overgrown grasshopper), and a variety of native snails including the flax snail.
Going ashore at the Islands is strictly prohibited by the New Zealand department of conservation, and those foolish enough to do so are subject to large fines and/or imprisonment.

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Operating out of the Tutukaka to service the Poor Knights Islands and surrounding areas. Northland.

Contact information:

Phone: 094343762
Fax: 0274040930
Street Address:
Tutukaka Marina, Rd 3
Whangarei
Recreation and Sports
New Zealand
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 12
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