An Auckland couple who went out fishing came back with an exciting memory after they captured an incredible encounter with an orca family near Rangitoto Island.
Mission Bay woman Sarah Hunter told the Herald she and her husband, Alan, were returning to Auckland on a jet ski when he first spotted an orca tail pop through the surface between Rangitoto and Tiritiri Matangi Island, around 1pm yesterday.
The pair watched from a distance until the orca disappeared — but it wasn't long before they spotted the family of three, one parent whale and two babies, again.
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"We saw them again and went closer and turned off the jet ski and they came straight towards us," Hunter said.
