Marian ventured to the I-site and much to our awareness discovered that a lot of the tourist activities were out of our price range. Our price range at this point, pretty much being whatever is free. : ) We had gotten tips from the Scottish couple that the whale watching (something Kaikoura is famous for) tours are good, but they only really saw the whales back and fins for about 10 minutes of the entire tour. There was also swimming with Dolphins, but we had taken care of that in Akaroa! So we opted for a scenic walk/hike instead. Along the way, we ran into a lot of “fur seals,” which are actually sea lions. We felt bad for them though because the tourists were sort of getting in their business trying to take pictures….idiotas! There were signs all around to maintain your distance, but nothing was registering. Anyways here is pic of one.
We walked around the Kaikoura peninsula which was very scenic – it was great. We saw egrets and imitation penguins (also called shags), as well as some wildstock poo! Fantastic.
Back in town, we need sustenance. See, we hadn’t eaten a ton that morning and figured that we would be okay until a late lunch. Not the case, we were very worn down. So we were able to get to our cooler and have some apples, laughing cows, crackers. Marian saw a seagull regurgitate its food to either its baby, or just a really good friend I guess. Then Marian bought a coffee (the first that Marian has seen that is made the same way in the states – filtered, not espresso), and John bough a lime raspberry milkshake. We made dinner and used the internet before calling it a night. Here is John walking to the city at night..
We started watching another creepy movie called “the happening” but said enough to those shenanigans pretty quickly.
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