Day 6 Christchurch to KaikouraWoke up with stiff legs and ventured back onto our kiwi experience bus with the delightful Dillon. A nice driver, but a strange sense of humour - in other words, not very funny. We drove for about two hours and arrived in Kaikoura, a small town specialising in whale and dolphin tours because of the canyon in the sea about 1.6km deep which attracts loads of these mammals to feed. Unfortunately the weather was pretty bad over the past ...

Arrived in Christchurch probably stinking to high heaven after a day wandering around Hong Kong followed by about 13 hours of flying. Cleaned off my stink and went for a walk around the town. Discovered that Christchurch seems to be more or less a hub for the South Island - guide books generally tell of activities that pick you up from Christchurch and then drive you 130 odd kilometres away to somewhere else. Saying that though, there was nothing really wrong wit...