Kaikoura

With only 3 hours of sleep, we caught the 8:00am bus to Kaikoura. Kaikoura is known as one of the best dolphin swimming places in the world. Sometimes, over 200 dolphins have showed up to a boat of swimmers. Pretty insane.

It was nice drive down the coast. Once we rolled into town, we were sitting on the bus, looking out at the ocean, and we could see a pod of dolphins about 150 meters off the shore, jumping in and out of the water.

(Sweet drive...)

For the rest of the day, I took it pretty easy. Someone had the Lord of the Rings showing in the common room. It was cool to recognize a lot of the places used in the movie. The Rees/Dart Track where we tramped is used frequently. In some cases, I can actually recongize mountain ranges and peaks.

(Catching an awesome sunset on the east coast)