It was the end of a 3 day trip and conditions were fine to head over to the Pinnacles for a morning dive. We briefed in the fact that there is occasionally a current running through the archway, but we didn't expect what was to come. Hug the wall to the right and you should manage to pop your head into the inside. Derek & Lisa got in first and followed my advice - as the rest of us got to the Arch we spotted them exiting the right hand side at a fair rate. We had descended into a huge school of Trevally and they were following us along the wall. As I stuck my head into the swim-through (on the left) the Trevally turned into the arch - half of them made it a couple of metres in and then gave up and the school got spat out above us. As we stuck our head round the corner the current was shacking the regulator in your mouth. Deciding to bug out we drifted up into the current and 'drifted' back out onto the wall.

The dive then went along the wall and into the channel. The visibility cleared to 30 plus metres in the channel and a ray lay tucked under a rock. Back on the wall the usual array of Nudis were around and the big Crays were sat in their cracks. Thirty minutes had passed and couldn't help but take another look in the arch. The current had fallen a touch and we could make it a few metres into the arch, where above us 6 or so HUGE Kingfish were somehow hanging in the current - WOW. Again we got shot out onto the wall where we finished off our dive.

Other dives on the trip included a packed Northern Arch, great walls of Cream Gardens and Magic Wall and the contrasts of Long Cave and HMNZS Waikato to finish off.

Water temp still 18-20 degrees and visibility around 20m.