A humpback whale described as ''bigger and better'' than the southern right whale currently in Wellington Harbour has been spotted swimming around the entrance to Otago Harbour.
Royal Albatross Centre operations manager Chris McCormack said he saw the humpback swimming happily between Taiaroa Head and the Aramoana mole about 10am on Sunday.
The solitary cetacean was ''about the size of a campervan'' and was about 100m offshore when he captured it on camera, he said.
Mr McCormack said sightings of whales, including humpbacks and southern right whales, had increased in the past few years, and he had seen two while kayaking last weekend.
''You do see more and more and it's fantastic''.
