Today we left Nelson for Kaikoura - home of Scribes Seafood Place (actual name = Continental Seafood, but perhaps a name change would improve business)
We loved Nelson, it was so beautiful - exactly what we thought Paihia would be. This morning though was spent looking at our travel plans. This whole Halloween thing did not work out well for us!
So we spent $200 each on flights to get to Auckland for this Halloween party, which we thought was on 31st October - Halloween! Turns out when we got told about it our brains were full of excitement and vodka and probably distracted by one of the very hot boys In NZ and we didn't listen to the actual date, 30th October - Not Halloween! So we went to change our flights today - was going to cost an additional $560 plus an extra nights accomodation. I'm usually all for paying ridiculous amounts of money for a crazy adventure - but somehow we made a sensible decision and decided to skip the actual halloween party and celebrate twice. On saturday in Christchurch and then in Auckland on sunday! Should still be amazing fun and that means two halloween costumes. We are excited to see the North Island again - I just love it up there!
Anyways - after sorting out flights and running some other errands in town we jumped in the car and headed to Happy Valley Adventures for Skywire - the worlds longest flying fox. We headed up and its like over km long I think. Anyways it was not too scary - we still screamed and I got a bit scared at the part where we were just dangling over a massive drop. But we did it! and when we got back the guy gave us a free ride so we did it again - was even funner the second time round!
After that we just drove through Blenheim to Kaikoura. The drive was really beautiful and, out of the same eye I could see beach and snow capped mountains. Not often that something makes me speechless, and I wasn't speechless seeing that, but I think a lesser person may have been!
The most incredible amazing thing happened though, the guy at the Flying Fox place, Dazza, told us about a place where the adult seals drop the seal pups off during winter. Like a seal creche! So we stop off at a place that starts with O, trek 10 minutes (thats 560 metres), I almost got like killed by swooping birds and then realise that we are at the wrong 10 minute walk! Least we got some exercise! Drove a bit further down the highway and found the correct place starting with O. We do our 10 minute walk (was shorter for me, I did leap and run in excitement at some points) and arrive at a beautiful pool under a waterfall, which has like 6 or 7 seal pups playing around in it. It was like amazing, still not a speechless moment, but I LOVE seals and they were so cute and funny. We watched for a bit, they were twirling and splashing and jumping, more active than the playful dolphins! After a bit I sat on a rock really close to the water and they came up and smelled me and touched me with their nose. They were very curious and had gross milky eyes, but they were jsut so amazing! It was like the coolest thing ever. We stayed about half an hour watching, but on our way out this poor seal started seal jumping through the forest bit. I was a bit worried he was lost, but apparently the mum seals come back and check on them every now and again.
After we left the seals we headed straight into Kaikoura, checked into the Albatross backpackers (really sute, but rooms are tinier than anywhere else we have stayed - Chrissy and I cannot both have open suitcases at the same time!) We got some dinner, I ordered flounder, which was absolutely beautiful once I got over the 'im eating a fish named after a character from the Little Mermaid' Luckily it wasn't yellow and blue. While I sat and ate my fresh fish I looked out onto the ocean and snow capped mountains <---- just cannot get over being able to see the snow capped mountains overlooking the ocean.
Tomorrow I am hoping to be brave enough to Skydive - then we are headed to CHIRSTCHURCH! Yay! Cannot wait - we are going to eat in a tram!
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