Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Kaikoura

Another quick picture post! Kaikoura (made of up the Maori "kai" meaning "food," and "koura," meaning something like "of the sea") is famous for it's wildlife and, oddly enough, it's seafood. There's a HUGE ocean trench right off shore which they call the Whale Highway, along with a coral reef sort of thing, that all comes together to create a GREAT place for whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, fish, turtles, and all kinds of stuff!

And I went on a whale watch! It was AWESOME, and we saw FOUR sperm whales! For those of you that don't know, that's effing rare.



Whale tail!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alison.
What beautiful photo's, you could sell them to the NZ tourist people for their advertising of NZ!! Ann & Murray

Alison said...

Thanks, guys! Oh, I'm so glad you found the blog! I hope you enjoy it!! :-)