A report of a pushy bottlenose dolphin at Omaio Bay in the Eastern Bay of Plenty is suspected to be Moko, the dolphin from Gisborne.
John Clarke and his wife Karina were fishing about one kilometre off Omaio Bay on Saturday when a large dolphin leapt out of the water beside their three metre tinny.

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'He was just having a play actually,” says John.
'We were just out in the bay about 500 metres from the point. The water broke and he just came jumping out of the water.
After first thinking the large creature under the boat was a shark, John recognised the curved dolphin dorsal fin when he surfaced.
'He was bouncing around the small dinghy for 10-15 minutes,” says John.
The humans decided to cool things off a bit.
'We've only got a 10 foot tinny and he was as big, or bigger than that,” says John. 'When he first went under the boat, I thought ‘that's a big shark'.
The dolphin followed the Clarkes right into the beach at a small cove. John and Karina beached their boat, and the dolphin remained with them playing in the shorebreak, beaching himself and sliding back.
'I gave him a bit of a nudge pushed him back in, and we watched him disappear,” says John. 'That was the last we saw of him.”
Omaio Bay is north of the Motu River mouth in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Moko the Gisborne dolphin left town last week, following the fishing boat Eskdale which was travelling to Auckland via Tauranga. Its crew say Moko followed them right round East Cape, and they last saw him in the Bay of Plenty.
The Clarke's dolphin is a similar size to Moko, and minders in Gisborne say the Clarke's description matches Moko's.