Feeling the effects of our previous night we rolled out of Watt's and into the McDonald parking lot, this really was the only thing that sounded good, oatmeal just did not have enough grease to sooth our bellys. The menu options are different than the states, they don't have just mcmuffins, they have the Brekkie which consists of egg, ham, cheese, hashbrown, and yummy onion sause between two biscuits; also their is a Mega Mcmuffin that has two sasuage patties, with egg, and ham between english muffins! Oh yeah, it hit the spot, Paul and I went over board by ordering a Mega McMuffin to split after polishing off a brekkie and hash brown each and Ben really crossed the line when he ordered a milkshake, craziness. Now feeling like crap and a little ashamed we once again squeezed into Serena (our tight fit getting tighter) and drove to Kaikoura.
Paul and I felt like we were home again, we pulled right into the Kiwi motorcamp we stayed in before, but were disappointed that the marine layer was in and our friends could not see the amazingly beautiful mountains around us, or how blue the water is. It was still warm so we lounged by the pool and read our books, and soaked in the hot tub. We were hoping for good weather, and good sleep as they were going to be swimming with dolphins in the morning.
Thank goodness went to bed in the clouds and woke up to a perfect day with a slight breeze! It was an early raise to get to the dolphin encounter by 8:15am, take down tents, and pack up but we moved fast as there was lots of excitement in the air. Paul and I were super excited to be back on the boat as spectators having already swam we looked forward to seeing the dolphins do their acrobatics in the air, and see them swim around our friends. The weather almost matched our's but the wind was out and the sea was quite a bit more choppy and our friends were more than likely to have a small wave fill their snorkels, we were both a little concerned on how clear the water would be but that soon went away as we came upon the pod. . They were diving with the largest pod of dolphins the encounter has seen all year and we were there to watch! There were over 500 dolphins in the water, you could have walked across them to another boat at certain times! It was so awesome to see so many swimming around, through and under our friends. Paul and I also loved watching them do flips out of the water sometimes within 15 feet of the boat and their babies trying really hard to jump but they could not jump very high! We got amazing photo's and video!
Our friends loved it, and we think it was a highlight of there trip, and certainly a great way to end it. We grabbed some fish n chips on the way out of town, and about 10min into the drive back to Watson's backpackers just about all the swimmers were asleep.
Back at Watson's we did a quick van cleaning, and gutted her to make sure everyone had all there stuff, and gave her a good sweep. We went to the store to get dinner, Paul and I wanted our chicken curry, Ben and Justin opted of a pack of 6 frozen meat pies, and we are not sure what feed house Jeff and Kasey shopped at but they bought some packaged alfredo noodles and some tuna to throw in it, and our last hokey pokey ice cream. This is how dinner turned for everyone on there own to a community feast of chicken curry. Having meat pie over load and being so generous on this trip we told the W2's that they should eat our curry and we could have meat pie appetizers, they seemed to like the idea, Jeff and Kasey's alfredo with tuna smelled and tasted like a cow manure/dead horse mix so we let them get in on the curry as well. They did offer the share the alfredo al tuna but no one took them up on the offer.
Not only was this their last night in NZ it was also our last cribbage game and being best out of three a lot was riding on this game as we were tied. All of our hands were bad, and many had no points, but I had a break through hand that scored 20 points, this was the deal breaker! Soon my team rallied and it was over with Justin not missing any pair points we took an easy victory! Oh yeah! I'm not sure if it was late or if the losing players did not want to hear recounts of our victory game but everyone went to bed right after the game.
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