Sounds epic man enjoy!

Thanks mate! Bloody stoked

Cheers mate, it’s certainly much harder from the kayak, but not impossible!

Nelson is a small place mate! Hah cheers

the gloves are much appreciated!

Thanks mate

Shot bro! 🙏

Cheers man, I’ll be chasing another kingfish as soon as the weather comes right, I didn’t make enough haha thanks heaps for the donations too man, all going to a good cause 👍

As always, great material and delicious soundingand looking kai. I really appreciate how you incorporate your parenting of the girls into your videos. Makes it very real and is great role modelling for everyone involved. Obviously you're involved in marine sciences which you allude to but keep separate from your you tube content. I've always been puzzled by the lack of seaweed in Tasman bay region. Do you know why that is? So different from most parts of NZ I've dived. More like Mediterranean or trpoics.

@@tomwhiteford3799 thanks for the kind words mate, appreciate it. Yes it’s very much similar to Mediterranean diving. That’s a hard question to answer but I will do my best. Tasman/golden bay is basically a huge bowl, which due to the nature of hydrodynamics doesn’t flush very well when compared to open coast, it instead creates big eddies or current with very little flushing, this means all the sediment from the surrounding catchments stay relatively stagnant and creates a high sediment loaded habitat - seaweed doesn’t like that. Another contributor is the high temperature shifts, high temps in summer, cold in winter, this stresses out most seaweed species and makes it harder for them to grow. Lastly, I would say historically Tasman bay had a relatively high biomass of crayfish, which eat Kina, as the biomass has decreased over the years the Kina increased, and potentially decimating remaining algae beds. It is also well known that most NZ seaweed likes wave action/highly oxygenated water, which Tasman bay just doesn’t get due to bieng so sheltered. These are all possibilities, although pinpointing the exact timeline for algae in Tasman bay is extremely difficult due to the lack of reporting. Some say it was never abundant, and others say otherwise.

Nah man just helps keep an even marinade, any plastic container will do, but you might have to flip it halfway through the resting process to cover all sides in the marinade