Dolphin Seafaris NZ

Happy World Oceans Day! 🌊🩵

June 8th is a symbolic day to celebrate our cradle, our healer, and our still-beautiful ocean.

But the truth is that every day is important when it comes to protecting it. It is our responsibility to stop the damage we have been causing and to help restore what has been lost.

There is still time to act, so please do your part. No single person can save the ocean alone, but if we all work together, I truly believe we can make a difference.

The ocean gives us so much. Let’s make sure future generations can experience its beauty too. 🩵🌊

✨ Curiosities about these beautiful ocean animals:

🫍 Male orcas often maintain strong social bonds with their mothers throughout their lives and usually remain within their maternal family groups.

🐟 The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is the heaviest bony fish in the world, reaching over 2,000 kg.

🐋 Humpback whales undertake some of the longest migrations of any mammal, travelling thousands of kilometres between feeding and breeding grounds each year.

🐢 Leatherback turtles are listed as Vulnerable globally, and some populations are critically endangered. That’s why we feel incredibly lucky whenever we spot these ancient ocean travellers passing along our coast during summer.

📸 All of these videos were filmed from at least 50 metres away (and more than 100 metres from the whales), using optical zoom only.

🌊 Under New Zealand’s Marine Mammals Protection Regulations, we have a responsibility to respect wildlife by keeping our distance, slowing down around marine animals, and allowing them to behave naturally in their own environment.

💙 We are visitors in their home. Respect their space, keep your distance, and slow down.

A day in our crew life. Or is this a dream? 🥰

We our dream job so much that we wanted to share some behind-the-scenes moments, and our silliness 😂

We hope you enjoy it and have a good laugh 🩵🐬

Big thanks for our starts that come up with funny ideas and gorgeous presence 🥰

International day for women in maritime ✨🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 just a few of ours, so glad we have found each other in this industry!!

Slow down (≤5 knots) less than 300m from the animals.
Max 3 vessels around them at a time.
Keep your distance: 50m (dolphins) / 100m (whales).
Read and follow the Marine Mammals Protection Regulations 1992 (NZ).

It is our responsibility to protect their home 🌊

Not only because they can’t simply grow legs and come onto land—but because the ocean is the very foundation of all life on Earth.

Every wave, every reef, every creature is part of something bigger… something that sustains us all.

We have the awareness.
We have the power.
And we have no excuse to stand by.

Protect what protects us. Act now—before it’s too late. 💙

Underwater footage kindly provided by .hko