You can't come to Kaikoura and not go whale watching, so whale watching is exactly what we did, and what an amazing experience!! Maybe 10 minutes into the boat ride and we got our first sperm whale. But we took too long getting from the cabin onto the deck and the whale dived heading deep for feeding for the next 60 minutes. Not too worry the next whale was only minutes away and what a sight. You only see maybe a third, if that, of the whale. When trying to spot...

First item of the day, pick up the rental car. Unfortunately the staff at the rental place didn't get the memo as there was no one at the office when we arrived. After a few phone calls someone turned up, we left with an upgrade so not all was lost. About an hour later we were on the road heading to Blenheim. The drive was amazing, huge hills, just like the North Island but on steroids! Turns out Blenheim didn't really have too much going on and we didn't have an...