Kiwi Adventures Blog: Diving in Rarotonga Cook Islands

Went diving for the first time this year. The below are a summary of 4 days of diving. Steve's fins are the yellow 3 foot long paddles in the first photo (big feet). The general visibility was mostly superb being able to see the ocean floor some 30 meters down. The dive boat was a small speed boat with backward roll entry. Bounced about nicely in the slightly choppy swells for a few of those days. Last day was flat as a pancake and did a pretty good wreck. Was very pleased to see there were a good variety of Nudibranch (colourful sea slugs). A lot of them did not come out worthy photos for the blog which was a shame but a few of the larger ones came out well. Nudi's are so cool (Victoria we needed your identification book). One day we did 2 dives in heavy surge through several deep caves and many meters of interlinked channels. Enjoyed the channels in particular as it took some buoyancy control to not be smashed into the walls at times and you would swim hard to 30 seconds going backwards, and then fly forward in the surge like a bullet for 30 seconds. Generally although the variety of coral is limited (we are told the 3 cyclones of the last years took a lot out) if you search around there was some pretty magnificent stuff. Enjoy, we did.