Gathering Mussels and Oysters in Taipa 

Wow thank you soo much Dominic cheers bro…. I always start every mission off with a Karakia/prayer… thank you again for your support with our channel means a lot brother…. And if your ever in the Far north bro we should link up for a mission if your keen….

Kia Ora Kia koe brother and much love to you and your whanau down here in Hikurangi❤I love your content cuzzy MAURI ORA😛

Hard out bro currents a beast in Taipa alright haha... Love this place tho always able to get a kai no matter the tide and weather... I've only scored one cray out there so far but I'm hopping that's all gonna change by this summer... I've got a waka in the pipeline's just sorting it out at the mo but thank you for putting it out there bro... I'm sure you'll find a buyer in no time...

Tēna koe ē hoa, that's the best plan... can't beat a Rāhui to replenish the Kai Moana.... it's definitely beneficial for the Ika, the reef system and the people.... we as Kaitiaki can only try our best to provide and protect... thank you so much for sharing with us 😃 our email address is sonnyandchar.thl@gmail.com Ngā mihi nui Sonny & Char

Awsome as cheers mate! Blessings to you and your whānau too 😊

Mean as must be freezing down your ways alright bro....

@@TheHighLifeWithSonnyAndChar yeah bro but it has its perks too, can get your quota of paua without even getting in the water on the right tides! Keep up the good vids bro that wettie sponsorship is coming soon

Mauri Ora whanaunga, thank you brother been watching your vids for a while now.... massive content cuzzy.... that paua spot you went to was loaded.... Keep mashing the vids out bro loving it.... 💚💛❤

shot brother the man for watching Cuzz...

Will be awesome to get out with you and your family.... I'm sure it'll be an amazing time out there...

cheers thank you... I guess those feelings your having is Te Haukainga calling you home...

Wicked as bro... I'm gonna try find those paua 😄 cheers bro

Mean thank you brother will definitely have to look into it and buy myself some

Top Man, thank you brother love your content bro.... Stay hearty as brother chur...

Taipa it's in Doubtless Bay Far North NZ

Oohh it was freezing!! Just like you could feel it through your laptop I could feel it through my suit!! Haha

It would have been amazing back in the day I’m sure….

@@TheHighLifeWithSonnyAndChar This is the result of snapper depletion. Snapper eat Kina, one of the few fish able to break open and predate on kina. However for a snapper to be able to do that it has to be of adult age. And few reach that age and particularly so in the north with the amount of fishing that happens. With no adult snapper kina proliferate like rabbits, and eat all the weed off of reefs. These are called Kina barrens, millions of kina going unchecked and eating reefs out of house and home and themselves into starvation as they eat out their own food source, but still keep spawning and breeding. All the fish that rely on seaweed as a whare or food, decimated. Kina barrens are happening all around Aotearoa. I'm in the South Island, you don't see them like up north. There is still a healthy enough balance to keep the kina in check. But eventually the fish stocks here will be wiped out and it will look like up north. Kina are beautiful but left unchecked they fuck up everything by turning seafloors into barren nothing. That reef you're diving on use to have weed and fish life for Africa. Old man and grandparents dived it for decades. It's farked. Take decades to recover.

Its so sad how much of the life is gone, it would of looked like a completely different reef a few years ago. There is a study being done down near Leigh that monitors the impact of snapper in controlling Kina population, it would be such a good study to be a part of buts its a bit too far for us. thank you for sharing with us!

@@TheHighLifeWithSonnyAndChar I dive most weekends when the weather lets me. Ecosystems that are intact (a healthy population marine life) you don't see Kina barrens etc. You see far less kina in some places we dive down here in the South Island, way more weed but boy when you come across kina in these intact ecosystems they are BIG and full. I couldn't believe what I saw last time I went for a dive out by the Kerikeri heads when I was last up home. Kina were in the thousands, tiny, skinny and some parts of the reef were bald where once they were teeming with sea weed and fish. And while there was a shit load of fish around they predominantly juvenile and the crays were tiny and few and far between. Over fishing is tantamount to rape

@@Lyricistnz yee man the Northland definitely needs a solid pest control plan for the kina.... it's always been on the bucket list to hit the waters up in the south island... I've never been but I'm sure it's beautiful....

Chur cuzzy the first song that’s playing when I come down the driveway is Pohewatia by Kings ft Theia and the second track when I hop out is Closer by Foundation (ALL STA REMIX) my brother Hemi drumming on this track…. Love these waiata….

@@TheHighLifeWithSonnyAndChar Kuzzy they are dope waiata and I love your videos brother keep more coming will be definitely behind your page 100 percent

@Rudolph Diaz wicked as brother thank you for your support