We could see several seals swimming lazily offshore.

Ring-billed gulls, called seagulls by local residents, make a pretty picture, swimming offshore or waddling on the grass across the road.

When white adventurers first recruited Aboriginals to collect pearl oysters, they found P albina, as it was accessible from wading or swimming offshore.

T-shirts show three fishermen despairing over their catch of one lone fish, while four sated whales swim offshore.

We don't really know too much about them because they usually swim far offshore.

Kittiwakes and guillemots are the most numerous, nesting on precarious ledges, swirling in the air near the cliffs or swimming on the sea just offshore.

It's a good spot for swimming with several platforms offshore within a netted swimming area.

This means they swim offshore, since close to the shore, wave crests run parallel to the beach.

The snorkelers are usually outnumbered by half a dozen stingrays swimming offshore.

In February 2013, filmmaker Adam Strange was killed at Muriwai Beach while swimming about 200m offshore, when he was attacked by a small group of great white sharks.