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Weller's Rock

Weller's Rock

Otago, New Zealand

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About Weller's Rock

About halfway between Portobello and the Taiaroa Head the road runs right next to the sea. About 100m before the jetty from which wildlife cruises depart, there is a small promontory with space for parking two or three cars, and a plaque commemorating the arrival of Weller, an early settler. The dive goes out towards the buoy marking the shipping channel. Dive at slack water. There is a small cliff on the NE side. We saw shoals of small fish, nudibranches, and sea tulips (look like Triffids). The sea bed was sand and silt, and there were stands of extremely tough multi-stranded kelp that Jen got caught in. Not terribly exciting. It was on this dive that my Uwatec computer stopped working.

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  • Sea Tulips
  • Small Fish
  • Nudibranchs
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