Kaikoura

Kaikoura was one of the stops we had been looking foward to for the whale and dolphin watching. Whilst on the bus on the way there we were given the bad news that due to high winds out at sea the trip had been cancelled for the day. We were gutted! Still we got over the disappointment with a trip to the local vineyard for some wine tasting (mostly white to my relief). It was a mere $4 for trying eight wines and a wine version of Baileys which was so nice we bought a bottle.

Just across the road from the hostel there was a pub quiz that we decide to enter. Despite our self appointed team name of Clueless we didn't do too badly in the end with a little help from other recruits, didn't win though.

About half an hour after we had gone to bed someone came banging on our dorm door, thinking it was just someone messing around we replied with a few expletives. The banging then got louder to our suprise so I went to open the door, one of the guy's from our bus and a large police officer were standing there. The guy then ran straight in to the room and grabbed his mate from one of the top bunks.

After a lot of commotion we figured out that a group of lads had had a few too many drinks and had broken a car mirror on their way back. We then heard the policeman shout "if you don't pay $800 then your going in the bin" (which we were most amused by and had to keep our laughing quiet). To our misfortune they arrested the wrong guy as the guy from our room came back and proceeded to snore the whole night like a freight train.