South Island Day 1: Dolphin Swim Without The Swimming

The Fun Bus

After they'd picked it up we headed out down the Banks Peninsula on account of the fact you can swim with dolphins down IN Akaroa. They're not very big dolphins, they're Hector dolphins, the smallest in the world and they're only found in New Zealand so we got ourselves kitted out in some very fetching wetsuits and sailed out to find some.

This is the most chilled out swim tour I've been on, usually you're handed a mask, snorkel and a pair of flippers and are thrown in the water and instructed to keep up with creatures more suited to the water than you resulting in a flailing mass of limbs as the animal rolls its eyes and pisses off to the depths again. This is a VIP tour, the dolphins come to you, its more of a float tour than a swim tour. Its fucking awesome, we saw heaps and they come right up to you.

After a good hour floating around and seranading dolphins with renditions of Katy Perry through my snorkel we got back onto the boat and headed back to land then onto our camp for the night which was a well cheap place at Amberley Beach. Shane was happy, he decided we were out in the wild despite the street lighting, electric hook up point, full phone signal and flushing toilets.

Ha, just wait til I introduce them to long drops.

written by  Koala Bear on February 3, 2009 from Akaroa, New Zealand
from the travel blog: Tiny Little NZ Road Trip
tagged RoadTrip, LovinIt and SouthIsland
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