Travels With a Camera - Peak Images » diving http://www.peakimages.co.uk The website of Award-winning Outdoors (Landscape, Travel, Adventure Sports) Photographer and Guidebook Writer Chiz Dakin Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:29:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Rainbow Warrior and Mercury Bay/Alderman Isles (Coromandel) a wash-out http://www.peakimages.co.uk/photography/rainbow-warrior-and-mercury-bayalderman-isles-coromandel-a-wash-out/ http://www.peakimages.co.uk/photography/rainbow-warrior-and-mercury-bayalderman-isles-coromandel-a-wash-out/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:23:14 +0000 PeakImages http://www.peakimages.co.uk/?p=965 I’d been hoping to continue the diving adventure on the Rainbow Warrior, but after 4 days of phoning 3 different operators and always being told that conditions were too rough to operate (“we’ve got 2.5m swell in just the bay, let alone out in the ocean – so we’re not going out to [...]]]> http://www.peakimages.co.uk/photography/rainbow-warrior-and-mercury-bayalderman-isles-coromandel-a-wash-out/feed/ 0 Diving the Poor Knights Islands, Tutukaka, Northern New Zealand http://www.peakimages.co.uk/photography/diving-the-poor-knights-islands-tutukaka-northern-new-zealand/ http://www.peakimages.co.uk/photography/diving-the-poor-knights-islands-tutukaka-northern-new-zealand/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:26:08 +0000 PeakImages http://www.peakimages.co.uk/?p=953 Have been taking a bit of time out to enjoy the Poor Knights Islands – off Tutukaka, Northern New Zealand.

I hired some Ikelite underwater flashes, and took them to a place rated as one of the Top 10 Dive sites in the world by the late Jacques Cousteau. It’s somewhere I’ve been [...]]]> http://www.peakimages.co.uk/photography/diving-the-poor-knights-islands-tutukaka-northern-new-zealand/feed/ 0