This morning we didn't rush to get ready, no alarms were set. Still woke up before 8am though! We had breakfast and then went out to do the peninsula walk. Firstly we stopped at the isite to pick up a map which was about as useful as a chocolate kettle! Anyway we figured as long as we follow the coast we'll be fine. Headed out to the peninsula taking in the scenery and local bird life and then came across the seal colony (the main reason I wanted to do the walk...

Woke up early this morning to skype Tom and had to sneak out the room without waking everyone else..easier said then done when you're as clumsy as me! Managed to crash the bag of food containing breakfast into the wall and then door - that did the trick in waking people up - oops! Got our stuff together and headed down to the dolphin encounter check in and then enjoyed a nice hot chocolate before donning a wet suit yet again! This time will boots, gloves and hoo...

In the morning we showered, had breakfast and then dragged our bags down to the bus stop to catch the bus to Kaikoura. The journey was only 2 and half ours and on route we got to see a seal colony! In Kaikoura we had to locate the hostel...the bus driver gave us directions however these turned out to be slightly inaccurate and after a few google map searches we eventually found albatross backpackers! Quite a nice hostel with a great common area and nice log fi...