Swimming with Dolphins (in the very cool blue ocean)
Ok first thing's first, who is the anonymous person wanting to see semi-naked pictures of me??? Depending on who it is, they can be supplied!!!!
So we left Wellington, wishing that we had a bit more time there, and caught the Interislander ferry to Picton.
Picton reminds me a lot of Stranraer, only much prettier and with an excellent cafe (ok so perhaps it does not remind me of Stranraer)
We then motored down to Kiakora, which we mistakenly thought was just a single street. We arrived there under the cover of darkness, so you can see our mistake! We decided to go out for a drink in the so called best Irish bar - for those of you that know, they were playing a DVD of Barnbrak - who knew such a thing even existed...? And then to up the tempo, we got Rod Stewart, but by then we were beating a hasty retreat!
So the following day, we went swimming with wild Dusky dolphins!! That was fun!!! We were given wetsuits, masks, snorkels and flippers and sent on a very fast boat to were the dolphins were playing. It was an amazing sight, there were about 400 dolphins in the pod and they were swimming and jumping and racing the boat.
It was really cool, basically the boat overtook the dolphins, then sounded a horn and we all piled out like mad things. We then had to try to attract the attention of some bored dolphins.
This consisted of either
1. Diving down
2. Turning in a fast circle
3. Making noises through your snorkle
or all of the above. what a sight we must have been, fifteen grown adults trying to bark like seals through their snorkles, you could almost see the dolphins laughing.
When you did get their attention, the way they looked at you was really amazing. It felt like they were studying you, perhaps if they had hands they might have poked you too!!
When we first dived off the boat, it was really cold. I know they tell you it will be cold, but blimey they really were not kidding.
After a couple of swims they took the boat into the pod and we got to attempt to photograph them jumping. (Really all we got were lots of pictures of splashes)
We can't put piccies on the mo as this pc was invented about a million years ago so will update soon. We are in Greytown at the minute and heading for Franz Josef tomorrow, so warm clothes all round!!
So we left Wellington, wishing that we had a bit more time there, and caught the Interislander ferry to Picton.
Picton reminds me a lot of Stranraer, only much prettier and with an excellent cafe (ok so perhaps it does not remind me of Stranraer)
We then motored down to Kiakora, which we mistakenly thought was just a single street. We arrived there under the cover of darkness, so you can see our mistake! We decided to go out for a drink in the so called best Irish bar - for those of you that know, they were playing a DVD of Barnbrak - who knew such a thing even existed...? And then to up the tempo, we got Rod Stewart, but by then we were beating a hasty retreat!
So the following day, we went swimming with wild Dusky dolphins!! That was fun!!! We were given wetsuits, masks, snorkels and flippers and sent on a very fast boat to were the dolphins were playing. It was an amazing sight, there were about 400 dolphins in the pod and they were swimming and jumping and racing the boat.
It was really cool, basically the boat overtook the dolphins, then sounded a horn and we all piled out like mad things. We then had to try to attract the attention of some bored dolphins.
This consisted of either
1. Diving down
2. Turning in a fast circle
3. Making noises through your snorkle
or all of the above. what a sight we must have been, fifteen grown adults trying to bark like seals through their snorkles, you could almost see the dolphins laughing.
When you did get their attention, the way they looked at you was really amazing. It felt like they were studying you, perhaps if they had hands they might have poked you too!!
When we first dived off the boat, it was really cold. I know they tell you it will be cold, but blimey they really were not kidding.
After a couple of swims they took the boat into the pod and we got to attempt to photograph them jumping. (Really all we got were lots of pictures of splashes)
We can't put piccies on the mo as this pc was invented about a million years ago so will update soon. We are in Greytown at the minute and heading for Franz Josef tomorrow, so warm clothes all round!!
posted by BoobBoo at 11:36 PM
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