{"id":92260,"date":"2025-10-21T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92260\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:18:08","slug":"rare-blue-whale-sighting-in-akaroa-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92260\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare blue whale sighting in Akaroa Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JZ76WR_Screenshot_2025_10_21_080626_png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"637\" alt=\"Blue whale sighting in Akaroa\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe sighting was filmed by an onlooker<br \/>\nPhoto: Sinclair Lannucci \/ supplied\n<\/p>\n<p>A blue whale has been spotted in Akaroa Harbour for the first time in several years.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers on an Akaroa Dolphins cruise on Friday spotted the whale on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It slowly emerged from the water as onlookers gasped.<\/p>\n<p>The sighting was filmed by an onlooker and marked the first blue whale seen by Akaroa Dolphins since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This article was first published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/star-news\/star-christchurch\/rare-blue-whale-sighting-akaroa-harbour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sighting was filmed by an onlooker Photo: Sinclair Lannucci \/ supplied A blue whale has been spotted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,147,406],"class_list":["post-92260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92260","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=92260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}