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The Three Kings is unusual. It has one of the highest rates of endemism in New Zealand, which is to say the things that live here are found nowhere else.
In Crater Bay, feathery arms of sargassum weed—unique to these islands—wave in unison, marking the motion of each swell like a hypnotist’s watch. Tangled in the fronds are pink tufts called epiphytes—the only known member of their family in the entire southern hemisphere. Blue maomao flutter in mid-water like a ticker-tape parade.
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