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Posted at 8:48am Wednesday 22nd Feb, 2012
 Fish numbers and sizes are increasing at the Department of Conservation marine reserve at Mayor Island.
Underwater monitoring conducted by DOC staff in conjunction with the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic Marine Studies Department has revealed the change.
A polytechnic student deploys a transect line as part of the fish population monitoring process at Mayor...
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Posted at 9:56am Thursday 16th Feb, 2012 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
 With the hurdle of the capes behind him, Tauranga kayaker Tim Taylor is settling into a summer cruise of the Northland coast.
He set out today from the Pukenui boat ramp in Houhora harbour to begin the cruise out across Rangaunu Bay to round Cape Karikari.
“All is very well up here,” says his mum, Lyn Taylor.
Tim Taylor is nearing...
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Posted at 9:27am Thursday 16th Feb, 2012 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
Fishermen Kerry Grant and William McIntosh swear their ‘one that got away’ story is true, they are not exaggerating, and they are telling it because they think people should know about a humongous great white shark near A beacon.
“We wanted to report it because a fish that size should not be in this place, let alone a great white,”...
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Posted at 9:30am Tuesday 14th Feb, 2012
 Tim Taylor is kayaking around North Cape today, the third in the trio of capes across the top of the North Island.
On Monday, Tim rounded Cape Maria Van Dieman and Cape Reinga, overnighting on the eastern side of Spirits Bay near the vehicle access.
Tim Taylor. Photo: Grant Dyson.
He set out at about 7am today rounding Hooper Point and paddling towards...
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Posted at 10:31am Monday 13th Feb, 2012
 Tauranga kayaker Tim Taylor is closing on Cape Maria Van Dieman today as he paddles towards the top of the North Island.
He’s in the process of completing his circum kayak of the country, a mission he began in November 2010.
Tim Taylor.
Tim started from Tauranga heading towards East Cape on November 27, 2010.
He was delayed by bad weather throughout...
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Posted at 8:47am Saturday 11th Feb, 2012
 It came down to waterline length in the final of the Omokoroa Boat Club dinghy rowing races held during the recent open day.
The three man race finished in order of water line length of the respective dinghies with the longest rowed by John Budden first, followed by Max Laver and Steve Willoughby.
Protest flags would be flying if they had masts, some...
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Posted at 3:03pm Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
 Kayaker Tim Taylor’s circum kayak of New Zealand may resume this weekend with Tim having another go at the 90 Mile Beach and North Cape rounding leg.
“He’s been waiting for a window to get around the cape; he might get up there and it changes, but we are going to give it a go,” says his mum and support person Lyn Taylor.
“Two...
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Posted at 2:28pm Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
 An upper harbour covered in catamarans is looking likely this weekend as the third ‘Matakana Raid’ takes place.
The entrees are expected to be about the same number as last year’s, says spokesman Lance Putan.
Catamarans in the 2010 raid.
The first raid had eight participating boats, the second 19 with two support boats.
This year he’ll...
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Posted at 12:00pm Wednesday 08th Feb, 2012
 Tauranga 49er sailor Peter Burling and his Auckland partner Blair Tuke were among the few competitors to enjoy racing on the final day of the Sail Auckland 2012 event.
The race courses were plagued by light winds and extremely shifty conditions, which saw no races completed in the 470, 420, Laser, Laser Radial and Finn classes.
Peter Burling and Blair...
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Posted at 8:47am Wednesday 08th Feb, 2012
 The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research is warning boaties to check the hull of their vessels for a skeletal hitchhiker.
Caprella mutica is a marine amphipod crustacean which is spreading rapidly through the country’s waterways.
Caprellids on a boat’s hull. Photo: Chris Woods
NIWA says the skeleton shrimp relies on boaties...
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