Andrea woke up early to head into work for the day shift. I slept in a little before getting a call from our housemates who are in the Czech Republic. They are having a great time visiting Jana’s family. I let them talk to their fish so they knew they were still alive. The rest of the day I spent working on the computer and relaxing. Andrea got home around 5:30 and we had a nice stir-fry dinner. Then we watched a movie and Andrea’s favorite shows (it’s a Sunday).
Day 136,
Andrea got up early to head to her Monday morning meeting and I got up just after to head down to the building site. Andrea came home after her meeting, had some breakfast, then got ready to chat to the DC in NH. I came home for some lunch and Andrea was chatting to the DC so I just ate quick and went back to work. Andre headed into work for the afternoon shift after her conversation with Dr. P. I headed over to Hislops Café after work, then went down to the movie store to get some more dollar movies. Stopped back at the Café on the way home to pick up a free coffee. I spent the evening relaxing and watching some TV. When Andrea got home we watched some more television then headed to bed.
Day 137, Big Day!
Andrea woke up early with me to make some breakfast before I went down to work at the motel construction site. She hung around the house doing some stuff on the internet, making a bunch of phone calls and taking a few pictures.
Pretty cool eh.
I worked for a few hours then found out my boss wasn’t feeling well, so he was going to see his doctor and wouldn’t be back for the rest of the week. Holy cow I am done working…sweet as! This was going to be my last week, but I didn‘t expect it to be this short. It was a physically demanding, but interesting job. So I thanked the owner and headed home. When I got home I got cleaned up and talked to Andrea for a while then gave my Mom a call to make sure she was doing alright. After talking to my folks we headed downtown to have a final lunch at the Thai restaurant then borrowed a car to head up to the grocery store; we stopped at the Whale Watch along the way to find out about going on a cruise. We dropped off the car and headed home to have some dinner. After dinner we went down to a local pub for a beer with some friends then headed back home to watch a movie.
Day 138,
We woke up and had some breakfast before walking down to the Whale Watch center to catch our cruise. Hoping we will see lots of whales. We hoped on the bus to ride over to the marina to get on our boat. We boarded the boat then headed off into the pacific ocean.
The ocean floor next to Kaikoura is very unique. Kaikoura lies at the intersection of the Pacific plate and the Australian plate so, there are mountains 2600 meters high just 12 km from the coast and canyons 1000 meter deep in the ocean floor just 1.6 km offshore. This large canyon in the ocean floor is known as the Kaikoura Canyon and provides perfect conditions for all sorts of marine life including whales. The primary year round residents are sperm whales, however many other types of whales, including humpback, ocras, etc., migrate through the area during different times of the year.
On the boat we kept a close eye out the window looking for the...
the spray of the sperm whale.
Luckily we saw one, then...
the tail comes up as the whales dives down deep to go get some lunch. The whales come up to the surface to rest and let their food digest after every snack.
We were lucky enough to see another whale...
and another...
and we also got to see some of these...
Dusky dolphins. They followed our boat for awhile as we cruised to find another whale.
They did some tricks while playing in the bow wake of the boat.
We saw another sperm whale
and another as we were getting ready to head back to the launch.
In total we saw five male sperm whales.
What a cool trip!
And what an amazingly beautiful piece of New Zealand. We had an incredible time watching and photographing these awesome animals.
After our cool whale watching trip we headed home to have some lunch and relax for awhile. That evening we got some awesome pizza (like hula hula, hen and ham, drunken rabbit, or gone hunting) from the local pizza joint and watched a movie.
Day 139,
Pretty boring day after yesterdays fun. Anyway, we woke up, had some breakfast, did some internet stuff and watched a little TV. Andrea headed off to work, while I finished organizing our final weeks and did some odd jobs around the house. When Andrea got home we relaxed a little, took a bath, then headed to bed.
Day 140,
We got up, had some breakfast and went over our plans for the end of our trip. After a little lunch we walked down to take a few photos of...
me at the construction site with my "flash" hammer (as my boss liked to call it.)
This is the half done motel. We also took a few photos of...
Andrea at Hislops Cafe. We had to have a little photo proof that we actually did a little work (Andrea more than me).
I hung around the cafe for a little while drinking a coffee and talking to the staff. Then I headed home to relax for the evening and do some work around the house. Andrea came home around ten and we chatted for a little while before heading to bed.
Day 141,
Andrea got up early to head into work for the day shift. I slept in a little then hung out at the house relaxing. When Andrea got home we looked at some photos from our wedding that one of her friends had put on facebook then cleaned up for our date night. We headed down to Hislops Cafe to have dinner since we hadn't really eaten any of the menu food. We had a great dinner; Andrea had the lamb steak and I had the roasted chicken 3 course dinner special. The food was awesome. After dinner we walked home and sat on the couch watching movies. It was a wonderful date night!
Day 142,
We got up, cooked some breakfast, did some internet stuff and did some more planning. After lunch Andrea headed down to the cafe and I hung around the house making reservations and relaxing. Andrea had a busy day (served lots of coffee and comfort food) due to the cold and rain. Andrea got home late, so we relaxed for a little bit then went to bed.
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