The dolphin swim we had planned was canceled because of the weather at sea. We were put on a waiting list for the next day but thought it unlikely since there were a number of people on the list. We had rescheduled whale watching for this afternoon but that got canceled to so we took matters into our own hands.
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| This waterfall is near a seal colony and is famous because seal pups hike 300m up hill to come in play in the pool of the waterfall. Matt is pointing at where they might be playing if they were there the day we visited:-) |
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| There happened to be a helicopter whale watch tour next to the boat tour place so when the boat trip was canceled for a 2nd time, we walked over to see look into it. |
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| What the heck right? A helicopter ride was on both of our bucket lists and they had an opening a half later and a 3rd person ready to go so the cost was less. |
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| Kaikoura from the sky. |
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| They time how long the sperm whales dives for and then base the tour time on when the whale should be surfacing for another breath. |
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| The timing worked and we could see the entire length of the whale as he surfaced. |
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| Plus the specks you see swimming around the whale are dolphins trying to play with the whale. |
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| Whale getting ready to go back down. |
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| His tail diving down. |
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| There he goes. Amazing experience. Glad we were spontaneous and went for it. |
1 comment:
Amazing! Way to be spontaneous!
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