Kau Point

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About This Site

Kau Bay is along the harbour. On the right hand side of the point there is a grid of tires set up as an artificial reef with lots of anemones, nudibranchs, reef fish and a conger eel. The left side has a shallow kelp bed along the shore - home to juvenile fish species, crays, seahorses and pipefish. If you swim off shore the site gets deep quite quickly, with a sand down to silty sea floor it is home to flatfish, crabs, stargazers and rays. Visibility is often low and there can be strong tidal …

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