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In Akaroa, New Zealand, swimming with the world’s smallest dolphins

By Kari Bodnarchuk

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 18, 2011

Hectare’s Dolphins may be the smallest and rarest dolphins in the world, but they will seem larger than life when you are swimming nose to nose with them in the Pacific Ocean. Visit Akaroa, a seaside village no more than a few blocks long and located about 90 minutes from Christchurch on the South Island’s Banks Peninsula, and you can hop in the ocean and splash around with these playful and curious creatures.

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