Hectoring the dolphins

The Southland Times published my letter today - very quick that was!

We were very lucky out here in Riverton at the weekend. A family of little Hector’s dolphins swam up the river to a spot under the bridge were they spent an hour or two feeding on fish that were coming up with tide. Plenty of locals enjoyed watching them from the bridge and a lot of photographs were taken. There were a couple of tiny calves with the parent dolphins and they kept in close to the adults for protection. They were lucky too, the Hector’s dolphin family, that they weren’t hurt by the thoughtless jetskii riders who swept back and forward over the tiny family, trying to get a closer look.