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Swimming with dolphins

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Swimming with dolphins

Tour boat operators such as this one in the Bay of Islands offer tourists the opportunity to observe dolphins from close up, and even to get into the water with them.

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Gerard Hutching, Dolphins – Humans and dolphins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/4689/swimming-with-dolphins (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gerard Hutching, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 September 2015.