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Their playfulness makes them popular with surfers at Porpoise Bay, where Nick Smart runs a small surf shop. Smart’s surf classes are often crashed by playful dolphins. “There are some days where they just don’t leave us alone. They just want to surf with us and have fun.”
For his students, it’s an unforgettable experience. “Some of them have never seen a dolphin. Some of them haven’t even been in the ocean. I often get students telling me it’s the best thing they’ve ever done in their life.”
But the interest in the Porpoise Bay dolphins is a double-edged sword. “Quite often when I meet people and they’ve had a good time, I say, ‘Don’t tell too many people’, which I shouldn’t say because I have a tourism business, but I just like the numbers at the moment. I’d hate to see this place get overrun.”
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 183 September / October 2023.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-special-case-of-our-smallest-dolphins/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.
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THE SPECIAL CASE OF OUR SMALLEST DOLPHINS
Their playfulness makes them popular with surfers at Porpoise Bay, where Nick Smart runs a small surf shop. Smart’s surf classes are often crashed by playful dolphins. “There are some days where they just don’t leave us alone. They just want to surf with us and have fun.”<br /> For his students, it’s an unforgettable experience. “Some of them have never seen a dolphin. Some of them haven’t even been in the ocean. I often get students telling me it’s the best thing they’ve ever done in their life.”<br /> But the interest in the Porpoise Bay dolphins is a double-edged sword. “Quite often when I meet people and they’ve had a good time, I say, ‘Don’t tell too many people’, which I shouldn’t say because I have a tourism business, but I just like the numbers at the moment. I’d hate to see this place get overrun.”<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 183 September / October 2023.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-special-case-of-our-smallest-dolphins/<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.<br /> Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.