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Kaikoura Slideshow
Kaikoura
Travel Blogs from Kaikoura, New Zealand
Kaikouru
Up early and off to the ferry that took us to the south island, a four hour ferry ride. The water can be very rough here but we just hit the perfect day for it. The sun was shining and the waters were calm so it was absolutely a perfect day ...
Kaikoura
... out. Kaikoura was a very beautiful place and I was still glad I went. Instead of going to the festival, we took a 3 hour cliff walk that had amazing views. It is surprising how each and every place in New Zealand is unique to me....I just can't see ...
Crayfish
Tried to walk off our massive hangovers with a walk along the impressive local cliffs, views of mountains running down into the sea, seals frollicking on the limestone rocks, blah, blah, blah, ... pass the advil. There's no way we're going out to sea ...
Christchurch - Kaikoura
... who were going to stay there. After stopping at a cafe that served "the best bacon and eggs in New Zealand" according to Steve, we continued onwards to Kaikoura. We really didn't spent that much time on the road today and shortly before midday we were ...
Kaikoura
Little Ted and his friends journeyed to Auckland seeing many interesting things on their way. Text messages and emails kept flooding in telling of sightings of Barnaby and stories he has told people along the way describing his adventures. ...
Whale Watching Awesomeness
This morning we went sperm whale watching…in a plane! It was phenomenal! We saw a 20m + whale, this potentially has been the best 30 minutes of my travels so far. After we went on a walk by the beach and saw some seals too as a bonus! In the ...
Sheep and seals.
... a MP3 tape adaptor, so for the first time on our journey we were able to listen to our own Ipods rather than New zealand radio music, which is not the greatest to be frank. 2 hours after leaving Christchurch, we arrived in Kaikoura, and checked in ...
Kaikoura
... by the tour guides, they are completely wild and love this area of the ocean because of safe environment it provides for avoiding orcas. After several dolphin swims I got a good chance to play around with my new camera - I hope you like the ...
Too windy for whales...
We had a 6am wake up call, to what looked like a perfect day for whale watching. Once checked in, we were lucky to watch a beautiful sunrise over the ocean, with an array of red, pink and yellow shades over the horizon. We had been warned that out at sea ...
A whale of a time!
... walk itself was particularly beautiful and we enjoyed being by the sea and the lovely weather. In the evening we sampled one of Kaikoura's other crowd-pullers, at one of their excellent fish and chip shops! There was a huge range of different fish and ...
on a jet plane..
... too dangerous to go deeper, this shelf under Kaikoura goes 2km deep or 2000m under the earth! I was flabbergasted! This shelf is why Kaikoura has an abundance of marine life; all kinds of Whales, pods of 300-600 dolphins, seals and a huge array of fish ...
Kaikoura one of the jewels of the South Island
... mountains of the Kaikura range to our right. It was the best scenery we've had in a week and we loved it. Kaikoura sits on a peninsula with halfmoon bays on either side. The tip is a seal colony and the base holds the town. We ...
Kaikoura
In the evening we decided to keep on driving to Kaikoura. But it was getting really late so we couldnt check in at any backpackers and we couldnt find a camping site, so we slept in the car next to the beach a little bit outside of town. The night in the ...
Whale Watching
... the bow of a boat scouring the horizon for signs of the resident sperm whales that live in the marine canyon off the coast of Kaikoura. We are all silent with anticipation and it is only moments before the cry of 'there she blows!' as the ...
Life in Kaikoura
... baby seals that came right up to us (one even sniffed my glove!) and were striking poses for our cameras! i love nz. Kaikoura is wonderful. I wake up...enjoy my free breakfast (food almost always seems tastier when i don't have to pay for ...
Snorkelling with Seals in Kaikoura
The first day of the Rimu trip takes us from Christchurch up to Kaikoura, to go snorkelling with seals. This is the first time I've ever worn a wetsuit, and it's not a pretty sight... Weather was lowsy too, non-stop rain, but that's no problem when you're ...
Kaikoura
Having followed the rugged coastline up to Kaikoura, we checked into Dusky Lodge and after a quick bit of lunch decided to head out for the afternoon on the bikes. We soon realized that if we were planning on being outside for any length of time we were ...
The Kaikoura Return.. forgetful people!
... you can sorta taste the flavour of it throu them but theyr' still quite tasty to eat..! Went for a walk around the hills of Kaikoura as well and drove to the seal point and a few different spots as well that evening. Camped up again that night ...
Waving goodbyes
... place to myself... very weird! It was good though. Tuesday I made my escape from Christchurch and bussed it back up to Kaikoura, where I am doing the highly-recommended Dolphin Swim on friday. A group of girls from the hostel headed out to the nearby ...
Whale watching
Well got up this morning at 6am to get some breakfast and to get myself sorted, packed away and loaded up in time to head down to the beach to catch the sunrise. 06.30 and day was just breaking got down to the beach to watch the sunrise it eventually ...
Britz customer service, Dunkies heaven, Tui beer
... 'get on the road’. Still I was on my holidays so hopefully I took it all in my stride :) There is a strange rule in New Zealand where you have to give way to the right – check it out ...
Sunrise and a pelagic birders heaven
... 's Shearwater Spotted Shag Mallard Northern Royal Albatross Southern Royal Albatross Gibson's Wandering Albatross Black-Browed Albatross New Zealand White Capped Albatross Salvin's Albatross Giant Northern Petrel Westland Petrel White Chinned Petrel Cape ...
The Life Aquatic
... boat I went by plane and got some amazing views of two 19m (55ft) long sperm whales and a massive pod of Dusky Dolphins. Leaving Kaikoura tomorrow to go back to Wellington for a couple of days to see Jo and then finally back to Auckland before I leave ...
Kaikoura – Arbeit, Pazifik und Sternenhimmel
... einmal gezeigt beherrsche ich die Bar wie im Schlafe. Hin und wieder kommen bekannte Gesichter aus dem Hostel vorbei (wie gesagt, Kaikoura ist sehr klein). Ansonsten: Wetter meist sonnig. Nachts kalt. Pazifik blau. Kaikoura Ranges mal grün (Sonne), mal ...
The Aura in Kaikoura
... coastal walk.....walking along the beach at first, then along a coastal path that ran to a seal colony, where there were quite a few New Zealand Fur Seals. It was possible to get up quite close to them too. From here I walked along an entire stretch of ...
Let Sleeping Seals Lie
... main attraction was the large lumps of blubbery flesh lying on the rocks and more often, in the hedges. These particular seals are New Zealand fur seals, among the rarest species in the world, and they're found in abundance around the peninsula's rocky ...