Whales v Island

Hello!

I'm in Kaikoura (check spelling) basking in the glorious sunshine and taking a day out purely to wash the contents of my increasingly heavy backpack. I arrived yesterday on the bus and went.... Whale watching... I was incredibly excited and could hardly sit still. We motored out of harbour at a very fast speed (30 knots from recollection)... soon enough we found two lovely sperm whales resting on the surface. The guide with the microphone was hilariously funny and very informative.

My sightings -

4 whales

1 blue shark

3 wandering albatrosses

and apparently between 200 - 250 dolphins

the dolpins would have made even the grumpiest person smile with their crazy antics jumping alongside the boat and doing flips in the air (show-offs!) then in the evening most of the bus crew from that day went to have a delicious roast in a converted beach house... ended up back in the hostel playing connect 4 (i am the current unbeaten champion) and debating on whether or not The Evil Dead 2 was actually a good film. Am heading to Wellington either tomorrow or sometime next week... slight dilema about whether or not to wait around for the group of lovely people I travelled with in the north island who are slowly catching up (can currently be found in Christchurch).

will write again soon with, no doubt, more antics...