New Zealand’s north-east coast is a cruising ground of drowned river valleys, offshore islands and marine reserves, all within a day of one another. Cousteau rated the Poor Knights among the best dives in the world, and the reserve status since 1981 has only improved it.
The week works south from Whangaroa to the Coromandel, mixing serious diving with the sort of anchorages where nobody else appears all day. It ends, appropriately, at a hot spring on a beach and a vineyard on an island.
Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read New Zealand; the rest we tailor to you.
