New Zealand's most famous dolphin, Moko, has recently been hanging around Whakatane. On Friday he shocked the high school rowing team who were practicing in the harbour. On Saturday he was 200 meters off the coast of Ohope, hanging around the kayakers. This morning I went with Alice and the dogs to the west end of Ohope beach, hoping to catch a glimpse of the famous free-wheeler.
It was a glorious day, and there were a lot of people in the water surfing, boogie-boarding, kayaking, rafting, or just swimming. It was so nice that we forgot about the dolphin until Alice spotted the perfect silhouette of a dolphin inside a curling wave. A surfer was riding the top of the wave, so it was quite a sight! After that, we saw Moko a few more times, hanging around swimmers and surfers.
Chris Redhead, a vet in Edgecumbe has started this blog to help keep track of where Moko is and what he is doing.
In the meantime, our dogs finally figured out how to play in the water and went completely crazy playing silly games like: "push each other into the waves" and "run out past the waves so you don't dare to come and get me". It was really special.
These photos are published here with permission from Chris on the understanding that the photographers retain the copyright on the photos:
Great looking blog Christina. Thanks for the reference. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome to take photos from my Flickr page if you wish to put them here as long as they retain their copyright markis.
Look forward to reading more,
Chris Redhead
Thanks, Chris! It'll be great to be able to display your photos, especially on the German language version as information about Moko is more scarce in this language.
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