Coromandel shore dive sites

[Markandjulie630]

Hi we are now staying in mercury bay ,around hahai and wondered if anyone had done any shore diving or was going diving this weekend or next(18-25 of jan 2014). Any help or advice would be gratefully excepted cheers mark and Julie ai

[ChuckyBob]

Not that I have done it by shore, but if you go to Hot Water Beach and head around the rocks to the north there is a small bay that isnt too bad for a dive. Next bay around from that has an excellent sea cave.

[sugee]

we're going to be camping in top10 during easter too. Is this bay you mention called orua bay btw? I saw on google earth there is a sea cave not far from this bay.