Today was Rons day off (something to do with mileage.) So we stayed in kiakora for the day. We did have a trip in the morning. And what a trip. We set of in a Boat to go find the albatross. A nice fast encounter boat took us out to where she hoped the albatross would be and she threw in a concoction of frozen fish livers and waited. And in they came. I have never seen birds so large. there a 14 different species in NZ and we certainly saw a few.

After the birds chewed the bait we left for home via the coast seeing cormorants, seals and 12 dusky dolphins which swam along side us. Unfortunately my camera battery had gone…DOH. But I have never seen them so close. From there back home a couple of pints and a bit of shopping completed the day. Well almost as the tsunami alarm went off and i was halfway up the hill at 6am in the morning before it went off lol.  Off to Christchurch tomorrow.

O, and I forgot to mention the 2 blue sharks….Fabo