Volunteers worked to save the whales for two days. Photo: DOC/Gregg Napp
Volunteers will be checking Golden Bay beaches on Thursday hoping a pod of pilot whales has stayed out at sea.
A stranded pod of 10 pilot whales was re-floated yesterday evening.
The group first stranded on Monday near Taupata Point.
They were refloated on Tuesday, then stranded again on Wednesday morning.
Project Jonah said volunteers guided the whales over sandbars and out to deeper water.
The whales responded well, were swimming strongly and eventually were no longer visible from the beach.
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