Back to Kaikoura (on me own)

Mandy headed back to work in Sydney on Tuesday so I'm now left on me todd for the next week. My first plan is to head back to Kaikoura and do some whale watching.

I reach the whale watching centre and they place me on stand-by, in case someone doesn't turn up. Luckily enough they don't and I get on the boat.

We spend a couple of hours hunting them down (not literally), and are rewarded by 4 separate sightings of sperm whales resting on the surface before they descend back down to the depths of the Kaikoura Gorge to battle it out with giant squid.

My puny camera wasn't capable of capturing the beasts so I just soaked it up.

Got up early the next morning to get shots of the sunrise and the lava beach down at the seal colony.




Next stop is Nelson.