Location: Bay of Islands

  • Kayaking with Dolphins – 25/7/20

    I was out kayaking in my duo boat with a friend. The Bottlenose dolphins took us into their slipstream and took us on a wild ride. It happened near my home, here in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. These dolphins had just towed the boat for miles in their slipstream, then began hunting nearby.…

  • Stingray Eating Orca’s! -2011

    The tail of an orca at the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. We watched a pack of orcas hunting for stingrays which was really spectacular! It was a small pack with a big male and several females, they surrounded our boat, it was beautiful!  Then they came to the surface with a big ray…

  • My First Encounter with Beautiful Orcas – 12/04

    My first encounter with beautiful orcas and what’s more, an unexpected one! Ok just to put this into context, when I say unexpected, I was on a whale watching trip at in the Bay of Islands at the top of New Zealand’s North Island so I was hoping to see something. What made it unexpected…