We woke up very excited this morning, Graeme in particular as he had been talking in his sleep a few hours earlier saying 'Tafooey' (not quite sure how its spelt but it's the word Graeme's uncle told us to shout to get dolphins to come closer!). We quickly put clothes on and power walked down to the harbour for our dolphin swim.We arrived at the office and we were given wet suits and masks, and then a briefing on what to expect on the trip. We were told that sing...

We arose got ready, had some toast then headed off to the viewpoint we had visited yesterday, thankfully today the mist had lifted and we got to see the peninsula and Kaikoura mountain range. We had decided to do a hike up a local mountain as we had been told by the tourist information place it was an easy track walk and took 3 hours to get up. Since the map we had been given wasn't very clear we thought we would nip back into the same tourist information place t...