A Buller’s mollymawk sits on the water in Otago Harbour in the channel opposite Harwood.
A New Zealand fur seal snoozes on the rocks at Taiaroa Head.
A New Zealand fur seal raises a flipper near Deborah Bay.
A little shag rests atop a channel marker near Deborah Bay.
Gulls and a Buller’s mollymawk gather, as a school of hunting barracouta churn up the water, about 1km out to sea from the mouth of Otago Harbour.
A dusky dolphin with a juvenile in tow makes its way through Waipuna Bay in Otago Harbour.
The Dunedin Wildlife Hospital invited the Otago Daily Times along for the release of a Buller’s mollymawk off Dunedin’s coast this week aboard Port to Port Cruises and Wildlife Tours’ MV Sootychaser.
Photographer Gregor Richardson captured these images of the abundant wildlife seen along the way.
