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  • Day 73

    Seals!

    January 18, 2020 in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    It was getting late in the day and we were pandering between going to try and see seals still this day or the next morning. But then we remembered the free pancake breakfast so the decision was easy: we were going now. We knew they were somewhere almost half way on the 11km walk around the Kaikoura peninsula. On the way we had great views over the mountains rising everywhere around Kaikoura. We also came across some old whaling history of Kaikoura. At some point we got to the car park where the seal colony was supposed to be. We walked a bit on the rocks and spotted one sunbathing and one swimming in the ocean. Nice, but no colony. We continued walking where we saw a small group of people standing around quite far away. Approaching it, there turned out to be a lot of seals enjoying their day. We could get quite close without them being bothered the slightest. The mothers were enjoying the sun while the small ones where eager to hop around and swim in the small water pool within the rocks. We stayed for a while just being entertained by the spectacle, before we walked besides the cliffs around the peninsula, back to the town. There we had Kartoffelgratin a la Oma.Read more