Comfort Inn Kaikoura Mediterra

... stocked up on sea sick remedies. After a safety briefing we set sail and the search began. After a while the boat stopped and the capitain used a sonic device to listen to the whales.<br><br>We chased a round a few more times and finally a call came.... "There he blows!" To the side of the boat you could see the top of a whale and the steam from his blow hole. The whales are sperm whales and come close to the shore as ...

... On the first night here, one memorable moment was treating ourselves to some fish n chips which is the smell in the air here. Only, you wont get in Angelos what we got here - grilled cod fresh out the sea grilled with tomoato and lemon which we enjoyed with a glass of white wine looking onto to the snowy mountains. Heaven. Unfortunately, our whale watching trip was cancelled due to high swells and gale force winds at sea. Disheartened, but ...

... to get a flat tyre near Rotherham and a farmer helped us change it, we drove through to Culverden where a young local mechanic at Peter Munro's garage repair the puncture and had us on our way in less than 15 minutes and the charge was only about $10.00, it was good he was quick as he was a part time fireman and was called out seconds after we paid the bill. As it turned out we passd him a the scene of an accident where someone had hit "Black Ice ...

... Märkäpuvuthan oli jo päällä, eiku snorkkeli ja maski naamalla, räpylät jalkaa ja mereen. Ei muuten väsyttäny enää yhtään, johtuen ehkä osittain siitä, et merivesi oli 15 asteista ja ehkä osittain delfiineistä, mitkä ui senttien päästä naamasta ja hyppi ympärillä. Siisteintä oli ku sai snadisti kontaktia johonki yksilöön ja se jäi pyörii ympärille. Jengi äänteli ja uikutti (jotku lauloi) snorkkelin läpi, ku oli käsketty pitää meteliä et delfiinit kiinnostuu ...

... trouble of taking my sea shells out of my main bag so I could get access to them quickly when going through quarantine, they didn't even look at them. On our way from the airport to our hostel we got to see a lot of the city as we were in a bus that did several drop offs. On the way I spotted a pay phone in a nice red box, it reminded me a bit of an episode of Paddington Bear or Postman Pat! We spent our first three nights in a hostel that was converted from a jail. It was a jail up ...

... sont spectaculaires. Photos a venir. Arrivee a Kaikoura en fin de journee, la place est moins pitoresque qu'Akaroa et il mouille pas mal. Petite deprime... Mais ils ont un super cafe internet "Global Gossip", c'est un nom original non?

... saw plenty of sperm whales. Not leaping out the water unfortunately, but we got pretty close to them and watched them diving, and we followed a pod of five for a while. Back at the motel we veged for a while then walked to the closest pub, and ended up having pizza there as the kitchen was about to close and the girl told us most other places would already be closed. Rather different to Europe. 20 December Rain rain rain, so we were ...

... br><br> <br><br> <br><br>The good time we'd made on the roads gave us time to check into our hostel (which is also very nice) before we needed to report for our appointment.<br><br> <br><br>This gave us time to change (it was ...

... zei hij ons wanneer de goede golf eraan kwam en moeten we peddelen en de beweging oefenen! David was een geweldige leraar (en een lekker ding, hihi) en enorm enthousiast. Hij kon zichzelf gewoon niet stoppen om iedereen hints en tips te geven (zelfs aan het stelletje dat eigenlijk alleen de uitrusting gehuurd had) en hij bleef lachen. <br>Ik kwam zover dat ik mijn voorste voet op de board had en op mijn knie lag en werd vervolgens ...

... done regardless of possible penury; swimming with dolphins. Here in Kaikoura you go to meet the dolphins on their terms, so it is the people who have to jump through the hoops. First you need perserverance to get on the trip; it gets booked up by the tour companies who then cancel some spaces each day, so you have to get on the waiting list and go to the office each day to see if you are in luck. Much to our disappointment this is not ...