Seals and Gorges

The morning was spent kayaking around the peninsula in search of fur seals. It turns out that fur seals are nocturnal and spend all day lounging around on the rocks rather than playfully swimming round your kayak. A fact not revealed to us until we were on the ocean. Points for research... Nil.

It was still a very enjoyable morning, and they at least had one seal on the payroll that obliged for us by getting off its rock and swimming about.

In the afternoon, we went for a walk (shock horror!). We headed up the coast to Sawcut Gorge. As you might hope this is very appropriately named being 100m high and as little as 2m wide.

Getting there involved one of the kiwi favourites of clambering up a river bed. Fortunately it was only about a foot deep as the path could not decide what side of the river to be on.

The kiwi way is to walk through the river in your boots, oblivious to the water pouring over the top.

We wore sandles.

Final mention goes to Mr Cooke, who planted the Norfolk Pines which line the seafront of Kaikoura... Any relation?