Beasts of the Big Blue

Explore the pristine wilderness of Snares Island with its colony of Snares Crested Penguins, soar with giant petrels and swim with giant sea lions.

Join sea lions, albatrosses, red-billed gulls,white-fronted terns and fairy prions on New Zealand's Otago Peninsula as they find mates and nurture the next generation. 

Traverse one of the longest natural sandbars side-by-side with pilot whales, then swim amongst dolphins and fur seals through drowned river valleys.

Take a deep dive into the teeming waters of the Hauraki Gulf and swim alongside a stealthy manta ray, dolphins and a kaleidoscope of tropical fish.

Delve into the strange magic of the Three Kings Islands and swim with bottlenose dolphins, predatorey orcas and shorttailed stingrays on the hunt.

Journey to the Cook Islands as 3.000 humpback whales get ready to mate and raise their young. Plus, get a glimpse into our evoutionary past.