Kaikoura

Here are some more seals for you.  These were part of a large colony right alongside SH1 just north of Kaikoura, back on the Pacific Coast, south of the Marlborough area.  It was rainy, windy and plain miserable, but I snapped a few photos and some video which I would post if I had bandwidth..

Below is typical of the day we had and the desolate windswept nature of this section of coast.  Gaspe Peninsula-ish?  We'll see something similar when we tour East Cape on North Island in a few days.

Not much traffic on the roads - tourism takes a steep drop after Easter, although schoolkids are about halfway through their 2-week Easter break.  So there's a few families about, some logging trucks today and not much else.