I was up at 6:30 and standing on the beach this morning. It was an amazing hour as I watched the sunrise. The colors were fantastic as they lit up the clouds and then up on to the snowcapped mountains. The pounding surf was great fun to listen to. I walked up the beach for about an hour before heading back. I had to take my shoes off so that I could feel the sand/pebbles between my toes. When the pebbles started getting too big I decided to put the shoes back on. Since we were having a late start this morning I had plenty of time to walk into Kaikoura and look around after breakfast.
The big activity for today was a whale watching expedition. We all dressed for warmth but realized too late that most of the trip was inside a heated cabin. It didn't look like we were going to see anything, but after an hour of pounding through the waves the engines slowed and we pulled alongside a sperm whale which had surfaced. We watched for 5-7 minutes until it had replenished its oxygen supply and then we watched as it waved its flukes at us and disappeared. There were two other sightings, one of which had two whales swimming together. It was a glorious day with great weather and calm seas. We couldn't have asked for anything better.
Arrived in Christchurch just in time for dinner with our school principals. Our guy was so friendly it made it easy to carry on a conversation with him plus the fact that he wanted to know all about the four of us coming to his school. I did have time to find one geocache before dinner down near their huge "Remembrance Bridge".
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