Alastair Blair knows a thing or two about shark encounters.
The keen fisherman made news in late 2010 when he took pictures from his boat of a great white shark in Tauranga Harbour.
Last week, Mr Blair got photos of a mako shark which paid him a visit while he
and a friend were fishing near Karewa Island.
"We had burley out the back and [it] just sort of came in. We were feeding it." Mr Blair said it had been a long time since he last saw a mako shark but he had not encountered one that hung around the boat like this one.
Mako sharks made headlines in New Zealand this week after a tagged shark named Carol was tracked in a 13,300km migration around New Zealand and Fiji.
