"Enjoy a unique and totally natural experience with wild dolphins."
Butler's Swim with Dolphins offers a unique and totally natural experience with wild dolphins.
Gemini Galaxsea is sixty feet long and very comfortable. She is a sailing boat, a very dolphin friendly vessel and this voyage is ecotourism at its very best.
The skipper has been sailing these waters on Gemini Galaxsea for more than ten years finding dolphins in order that people can experience these intelligent creatures on their own terms.
We make one voyage daily, departing 0900 from Tauranga, 0930 from Mt Maunganui and returning sometime after 3.30. Our return time is not fixed, our mission is to get you in the water with the dolphins not adhere to 'human' schedule. It's a dolphins' world out there and we have been getting dolphins and people together for over 13 years and our dolphin encounters have become legendary so you will need to book.
Gemini Galaxsea's large foredeck, especially the bow area, provides excellent photographic and video opportunities of dolphins. Anywhere from 10 to 200 or more comon dolphins often gather about Gemini Galaxsea as she slowly moves with the pod. Bottlenose dolphins in pods from 10 to 30 or more are attracted to Gemini Galaxsea as well.
Big adults, juveniles, even tiny new born babies will accompany their mothers in for a close look while the main body of the pod simply goes about whatever business it has. A typical encounter with common dolphins will last more than an hour. Bottlenose dolphins will stay with the boat for the same period of time, all the while pod members will break off their activity and come to play with passengers. Often we will have more than one pod during any day.
Cost (2007/08 Season): Adults NZ$125.00; School Children/Senior Citizens NZ$100.00; Infants (5 and under): Free
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