ARID COVE ARCHWAY

Bryozoan
NW Rakitu (Arid) Island, Great Barrier Island 
Depth Range: 3-30m
Arid Cove offers something for everyone. The steeps walls outside the archway drop to sponge gardens at 25m. Prolific fish life, especially demoiselles and in summer kingfish feed amongst the baitfish. Look for large blue moki often hanging in the archway. The walls are a myriad of sponges, solitary corals, bryozoans, hydroids and anemones with half-banded perch on the ledges.