left behind at low tide and discovered by our dogs! Plenty of feeding traces (depressions) nearby.
Busy photographing a goatfish at Goat Island in poor visability when this whai swam past and I just managed to get this one photo - totally stoked! I did try and follow but it disappeared into the murky water.
Not sure if I have the species name right.
Found alive on the ramp at the Outboard Boating Club and died shortly after.
Female, 1025 mm TL, 730 mm DW.
Quite different to the more common 11-armed speceis normlly found on this beach
Pregnant female, 170 cm TL, c. 35 kg, tail-wrapped and drowned on a longline, eight to ten 30 cm pups released alive.
Photographs courtesy of Richard Coxon.
The second image is of the foliage of the host tree.
I know this is not the smallest one - glove marks on second photo 10mm apart. Grazing in the intertidal at night.
Found alive on the ramp at the Outboard Boating Club and died shortly after.
Female, 1025 mm TL, 730 mm DW.
How exciting. Last year we found one T.malvina in the neighbour's property but this year when I went to check that spot, none on his place but a colony now on my place.
Remains of the blue tide at Piha today. Noticed a lot of these blowing up into the dunes. Should make for a nice input of nutrients.
I also couldn't help but notice all of the small plastic fragments in the drift. They were everywhere you looked.
estimated length 3.66 m (12 ft)
12-13 m depth, SST 15.7 Celsius
Frame grabs taken from video provided courtesy of Owen and Indah Wilson.