The Old Convent Kaikoura

... br>After an initial panick when i first got in the water from the fact that i could just see fins all around me, the 9 degree water and trying to breath through a snorkle... but after a minute i was good and ready to go. Put my head under the water and there were Dolphins everywhere.<br>They swan round you, over you played with you ...

... New Zealand really is an amazing place.<br>Drove past a sign that captured my intrigue...'4KMS AHEAD - SEALS'. Seals? Really? Surely not?<br>But ladies &amp; gentleman, I assure you this is correct. There they were, literally 50-60 of them within eye shot. I just had to stop to see this! Got out and took some photos of them, they did not at all seemed bothered with the attention they unintentionally gathered.<br>From there I kept heading down ...

After the Pancake Rocks, we drove back down to Greymouth in order to pick up the road through Arthur's Pass. I had been really excited to take the Tranz-Alpine train, one of the most scenic train trips in the world, but the weather was pretty miserable &amp; it didn't seem worth it on the day, so we drove the pass instead. I was pretty disappointed that the weather was so poor, we couldn't really take in the beautiful scenery that I'd heard so much ...

... est froide mais ce n'est pas grave, je suis trop contente! tellement contente d'ailleurs que j'en souris de trop et que ca decolle mon masque sans arret... resultat, je n'arrete pas de boire la tasse salee!!... je chantonne ce que je peux dans mon tuba: pas tres simple en fait car je n'ai jamais fait de tuba avant... et puis un dauphin s'approche un peu, je nage en rond et il me suis quelques instant... et puis je prends la tasse encore une fois. Je sors la tete de ...

... learn how to spell them! They were amazing to see and some as long as a few metres in length had been forming over thousands of years! On our way back we stopped off at a fur seal colony which was at a rocky beach just by the road side. There were loads of them asleep on the rocks and their pups. Apparently they can be very vicious if you get between them and the sea as they feel cornered. So we took no risks and viewed them from the van. The second day we ...

... to dive so you could see its incredible tail!!! Couldnt quite believe we were seeing them as they were massive - we were so lucky that day as managed to see about 6 really close up sighting and another 4/5 in the distance, the average is only about 2/3 per trip! Not usually our luck but we both got **** on by birds recently (meant to be good luck?) so maybe it was about time!ha!!! We got back to shore absolutely tired out by ...

... so confused, and finally we figured out that they were street performers in Christchurch with an acrobatic/trapeze number! Christchurch hosted the International Buskers Festival when we were there. It was a really nice event with performers on the church square and at other sites through the town. We saw maybe 5 performers, and two of them were my favorites... this act was one of ...

... their territorial waters as long as they are allowed to kill what they want in thier own stretch of water.... mmmmm after seeing these fantastic and large creatures I fail to see the need to shoot them with an explosive harpoon to study them! If the Japanese want to do this I feel it only fair that we should be able to shoot the equivilent number of Japanese marine scientists in order to conduct vital reaearch to see if they have a brain!! oooohhhh radical Mac.

... swimming, so hopefully she's better with cameras under the sea than she is on dry land! Otherwise we could have 24 photos of her fingers, a dolphin's tail or more likely a load of water ;) <br><br>(update 17/12 - we've ...

... himself, so I was sure it was just a matter of time before the murdering started. I didn&#8217;t have to wait long. The karaoke machine came out soon after dinner and I completely murdered Travis&#8217; Why Does it Always Rain on Me?, with countless other songs getting similar treatment. Our Tarantino look-a-like decided he couldn&#8217;t wait until dawn for the carnage to stop and pulled the plug on things just before 1am. <br><br> A chant of ...