The reef is shallow on top, at 10m, and drops down to 30m, where the reef turns into kelp covered boulders. There are a few small caves in the shallows.

Taupiri Bay has a sandy sloping bottom with a fairly significant reef structure that curves out from the left side of the shore. Max depth is 8-10m with a favourable tide.

With the option to dive either the western or eastern side, Motuwheke Island is a rocky reef dive. Kelp covered boulders can be found on the western side where depths from 15-25m, with greater depths of 25m to 45m on the eastern side.

Wairwiri rock is a boulder covered dive site with constant depths of around 30-35m. One of those dive sites where you never know what you might see.

The HMNZS Canterbury was decommissioned at the end of March 2005 and was scuttled on 3 November 2007 at Deep Water Cove in the Bay of Islands, making for a great artificial reef wreck dive.

A wonderful dive site for beginner divers and snorkelers. Named for the white rock it is made of, White Reef has made a substantial recovery within the protection of the Rahui, from Kina barren white rock to an almost fully covered healthy reef.

The Avenues is a series of channels and guts that make up a shallow reef network. The deepest this reef gets is 20m, making it a great site for Open Water to Advanced divers.

Hommer Reef is a pinnacle near Home Point that breaks the surface. It drops off to 25m to reef in a cone shape. Divers can circumnavigate the pinnacle with ease.

Small, sheltered bay with rocky reefs all around the around. The arch is quite shallow (less than 5 meters). Follow the bottom contour out to 30+ meters. Lots of boulders and nooks and crannies.

Rocky kelpy reef in 10m of water on the inward side of the island leads out to 18-25m towards the seawards side as one circumnavigates the island. An underwater cavern is a main feature of this dive, approximately 5m wide at the entrance.