Christchurch to Kaikoura
Trip Start
Apr 16, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 11, 2008
Kaikoura,
South Island,
New Zealand
Friday, July 4, 2008
We left Christchurch at 8am, catching the Magic Bus to Kaikoura. We chose Kaikoura as our next destination in NZ due to the whale watching. The journey took 4 hours and we stopped off on the way to watch a group of sunbathing seals. One of the group on the Magic Bus decided to get an up close photo next to one of the big seals. This backfired a little as the seal growled and lunged forward, making the person in question jump out of her skin and had us in fits of laughter.
We arrived into Kaikoura at 12 and booked ourselves onto the whale watching boat that departed that afternoon. We booked into the hostel and had enough time to get a shower and have something to eat before getting on the boat. The boat carried 40 of us 5km out into ocean where we saw 4 giant sperm whales. The background included snowtop mountains and amazing blue water (See photos). The trip was well worth doing. We spent one night in Kaikoura and then moved onto Nelson.
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