South Island Day 2: Seal Bothering In The Rain

Yesterday was a wicked start to the holiday but today was rained off a bit. We drove up to Kaikoura to go whale watching but the ocean swell and the weather in general meant it was cancelled, probably a good thing given my inability to keep the contents of my stomach in place on rough seas. This is when we discovered that there's not much to do in New Zealand when its raining so we headed down to a campsite right by the sea so we could go seal bothering a bit later if the rain eased.

Goose Bay

Rained Off

So it was pretty much an afternoon of drinking beer (me and Shane) and Nintendo DS (Nat) and making a vague plan of where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do. Eventually we dragged Nat away from her DS kicking and screaming to go and look at some seals because I'm a perpetual tourist and must do stuff all the time. Last time I went seal bothering it was grey and miserable an all. I now associate seals with crap weather.

Spot The Seal

On A Mission For Seals

Anyway, tomorrow the exercise would begin. Nat has plans for me that include something called Yomping which is apparently power walking interspersed with 60 seconds of jogging and I was talked into this after she threatened to take me jogging.

Right. Like thats ever going to happen.

written by

Koala Bear on February 4, 2009 from Kaikoura, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Tiny Little NZ Road Trip

tagged RoadTrip, LovinIt and SouthIsland

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