Dinge, Drugs, Dolphins, and Whales

Well my friends, what a night we had last night. I tried putting off going back to the hostel for as long as possible, but eventually it had to happen. We should have just stayed out all the good it did us. Neither me or Sal got more that an hours broken sleep, we were both up by five and sat round the heater in the living area. The reason being we were in a pokey little room with an extremely loud snoring person, and the room was freezing (no blankets provided). Then to top it all off after waiting till 7 to shower , only one shower out of four had hot water. I ended up with a cold one. Hideous. It was then firmly decided by Sally that she wasn't go to stay there any longer (I had already decided to move on to Christchurch today). She went off at 8 to try and get in another hostel but there was no room at the inn, and so now she is also heading down to Christchurch with me.
Luckily we had a real treat in store for us with the whales (made a little more interesting at first with the drugs i took for sea sickness- as Sally put it I was still me, just more concentrated. Basically i felt dizzy, laughed a lot at silly things, lost my ability to walk properly, and found it difficult to talk sense. I did recover). We saw three sperm whales in total ( a rare occurence apparently), all within a few minutes of each other. Two of the shots I got are below.



Then we came across a seal beating up it's fish dinner, followed by loads of jumping fish, and last but by no means least a pod of about 100 playful dusky dolphins. They were jumping and swimming really close. Absolutely adorable. Now we're waiting for the bus to take us away. Speak to you from Christchurch. Kt. xx