{"id":422860,"date":"2026-05-11T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/422860\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:30:18","slug":"humpback-whale-spotted-in-akaroa-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/422860\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback whale spotted in Akaroa Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first humpback whale of the season has been spotted in Akaroa Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Akaroa Dolphins posted video of the sighting near Akaroa township to its Facebook page on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the great humpback migration now in full swing, we were treated to an exciting surprise &#8211; our first humpback sighting of the season right down the harbour near Akaroa\u2019s township,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s incredibly rare to see a humpback this far in, so we suspect this may have been a curious young juvenile exploring the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our last sighting had it heading back out toward the harbour entrance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What an incredible reminder of the wild beauty right on our doorstep.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first humpback whale of the season has been spotted in Akaroa Harbour. Akaroa Dolphins posted video of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-422860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}