After a long day wandering through Tauranga streets and through a cat door, this young seal pup went straight for the couch at a home in the Bay of Plenty.

Kapiti Island has gone to the birds and Jim Eagles reckons that's what makes a stay on this nature reserve so rewarding.

A humpback whale and her calf frolicked in the Hauraki Gulf yesterday, entertaining a boatload of tourists.