Friday 29 May 2009

Wellington and Kaikoura

We arrived in Wellington to meet Vez and Ben, thankfully the weather was in our favour this time as the ferries and the flights were back on track (although Liz still got sea sick on the rough seas!). We went to Tu Papa (if thats the right spelling), museum, we spent most of our time there in the new sections...where they had a multimedia wall, giant map of NZ on the floor, a room that imitated an earthquake etc..very fun day! There was even an exhibition called "we are unsuitable for framing" that i got a chance to look around.
Can you tell we were here?!
The collosul squid!
The view over Wellington...just as the mist came in to hide everything!
Beautiful view on one of our many bus journeys..
Kaikoura
We didnt manage to see the whales, which was very disappointing but there was absolutely nothing to do here in bad weather..we were almost dying from boredom when we randomly bumped into our cousin Mallory and her boyfriend Paul again...such a small world!!!
They took us to a seal pup colony where there were about 50 playing in the waterfall (impossible to catch on camera!), absolutely amazing to see! We had a lovely day with Mal and Paul and were sad we hadnt known they were there sooner!






This was the lookout point, not only for the view but also because there are seals on the rocks

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