Northcote Intermediate School

Over 8 days Discover Goat Island guides, Tony and Jenny Enderby, took around 200 students snorkelling at Tawharanui. Each day a class arrived, put up tents and did three activities: snorkelling, kayaking and beach games. Most days there was too much swell to safety snorkel off the main beach, so the students were taken to the alternative beach on the other side of the peninsula to snorkel at Jones Beach.
There were little spotties, snapper, goatfish, eagleray and piper. Many students also saw octopus, squid, live trumpet shells, live scallops, anemones, sea urchins, seaweed and other marine life.
It was noted that the students were extremely helpful towards each other and were a pleasure to take out.

Birkdale Intermediate School

December 1st - another great day at Goat Island, this time with students from Birkdale Intermediate School, Auckland. A nice early start with calm conditions and green water. Plenty of snapper, red moki, blue maomao, spotties, leatherjackets etc to see. After the snorkel Discover Goat Island guides Tony and Jenny Enderby visited Echinoderm Reef and found sea hares, nudibranchs both orange and black, octopus, trumpet shells, kina, seastars and much more. The students then had a trip on the glass bottom boat.