Sealife in Kaikoura

Kaikoura is famous for it's sea life. It was in the 80this a calm fisher village and changed nowadays to a bustling touristic place. We were strolling along the shore and were able to watch a few seals... what cute animals! They are used in having contact with people and don't seem to care about curious photographers, but take care! Seals can be very dangerous and going to approach them to carelessly can be dangerous. Keep always 10m distance!








In the afternoon was our whale watching trip schedulded. Three and a half hour were we on our vessel and it was impressive how these guys were able to detect wild life animals. It needed them half an hour to recognize the first whale by radiosonar. With high speed were we tracking the whale and we were successful!
In were able to watch two whales and a school of Delphine's. I got a little bit jealous... it was obvious that they enjoyed their life in the sea, jumping around and playing in the waves...