Needing a shower to try and take the roughness away we got up at about 9am, which left us in a little bit of a hurry to get everything sorted in time for 10am (check out.) Just as we were about to set off a man knocked on our window and asked us if we had long left in our campervan and if we wanted any food, as him and his wife (Newly weds.. on their honeymoon) were dropping their campervan off that day and had loads of food left. And when he said loads.. he actually meant loads. My gosh we got.. 10L bottle of water, soup, wraps, rice pudding, tomato sauce, chilli sauce.. some noddles and loads of other stuff that we actually won't even use our self. But it was very kind of them.

After talking to them for about 15 minutes it was time to leave the campsite and head north towards Kaikoura. We had about a 2.5hr journey but when we arrived it was a beautiful coast. Before finding anywhere to stay we needed to book onto a trip for the following day to go out whale watching, as we got to the office we noticed the trip for that afternoon wasn't running due to high winds.. so we booked our trip for 10am the following morning in hope that we could go.

By the time we had done that it was dinner time, so we quickly whipped up a chicken salad before heading to Point Kean.

Point Kean is a large seal colony and when we arrived there was actually a seal led in the middle of the road, cars had to dodge it to get a parking spot. As everybody should know seals can move quite quickly and can get very aggressive but Lucy and Peter thought it would make a good picture if one of us led down next to the seal in the road. Peter volunteered first so quietly walked round the otherside and knelt down, as he knelt down the seal gave a massive grunt and Peter made skids in his underpants. Obviously we didn't get the picture we were hoping for.

From the seal colony we walked the Kaikoura Peninsula which took us about 3 hours, stopping from time to time to take in the views ..ohh and watched some cows running wild in a field we had to walk through. When returning to the van none of the seals had moved.. still sat in the road and on the footpaths. That night we had music blaring out until 2am from someone on the campsite.

Just before 10am the following morning we made our way to Whale Watch Kaikoura office to check in and pay for our tour. At 10.30am we had a quick briefing about safety on the boat.. e.g where the lifejackets were kept etc. Then after that we boarded a bus to be taken to our boat which was called Tahora. Sailing out for about 30 minutes being told some facts about whales, the boat stopped and we were allowed to move outside. The skipper took out this huge instrument .. we can't remember what it was actually called but it looked like a big shower head.. it was used to listen to the callings of the whales in the sea.. fair amazing actually. The skipper then knew exactly where they were heading.. within 10 minutes we were watching a massive sperm whale taking a breath and water spurting out. Sperm whales have teeth and eat giant squid and sharks.. WHOLE!! We watched this whale for about 5 minutes and then he did what we wanted to see the most.. he dived deep into the ocean lifting his tail in the air. It was so cool watching it. After a good 10 minutes of looking at some big Albatross we sighted our second whale.. this time it was even bigger and Lucy got a quality picture of it's tail. The third whale we saw we actually took a video of it arching it's back before lifting it's tail as it dived.

After seeing 3 Sperm Whales we went on the lookout for some Humpback Whales, unfortunately we didn't get to see any as the Orka's were swimming about. Orka's are Killer Whales. Did you know that Killer Whales aren't actually Whales but are the largest species of dolphin. And if you didn't know that.. did you know that Killer Whales actually eat Whales..

Killer Whales are massive, they can grow up to the size of a bus and their top fin can grow to 2 metres tall. We saw about 3 killer whales in the end which was quite amazing, to say they are in the wild. All in all our Whale watching trip was very succesful and we had such a great time.

Back on land where we had lunch and drove into Kaikoura to the i site, booked the ferry to the North Island for the Tuesday 5th June. As it turns out we had to pay a lot more than expected because of the length of our vehicle.. SMART!!

That night we free camped at Okiwi scenic reserve... watching the pennies now until we leave New Zealand.. haha!! :-D