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Nursery cove is one of the shallower locations at the Poor Knights, and has one of the few permanent moorings. The mooring block itself is always worth checking out, as there are often both male and female rainbowfish darting around the sand at 18 metres.
Just south of the mooring block, you round a point that juts out into the sand, and come to a vertical crack/swimthrough called the labyrinth. In this crack you can see schooling bigeye, yellow and speckled moray eels, and a stunning array of gorgonian soft coral fans, all bathed in piercing shafts of light
Twenty metres or so off the point there is an old fisherman's anchor, virtually unrecognisable to the uninitiated, as it is totally covered in eklonia kelp. Around this anchor you will see snapper mooching around the sand, possibly terakihi, and often a john dory will be seen, stalking it's next meal.
Coming back around the point into the cove itself, more often than not you will be escorted by schools of koheru, until you get to the shallows at the back, where myriad juvenile wrasse of all descriptions, red pig fish and fat bluefish will compete for your attention. Fantastic!
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