Tuesday, December 2, 2008

It's all fun and games till someone vomits on the dolphin spotting boat...

Hello! So apparently I've been wandering away my time on the internet and now I have five minutes left, so the longer explanation of what I've been doing will have to wait till tomorrow. I did manage to get a few pictures up though, you can see them here. Yes, I got seasick today, and I puked on the boat taking us out to swim with dolphins. Was it embarrasing? Yes. But did I manage to make it in the bucket! Of course! Though I felt like crap all day, I did get to do a bit of swimming with the dusky dolphins; it was amazing. There were so many of them everywhere, and they were totally wild, not trained to come to humans. You can see a gallery of what the swimming looks like here. We even saw a few orca (killer) whales on the ride back, which doesn't usually happen. Lauren cried again. I was moved, but also preoccupied with not losing more contents of my fragile stomach. Tomorrow we're heading north and taking the ferry from the South Island to Wellington, from there we'll explore the North Island. Christchurch was an adorable city, very English (or that's what they say). I'll write more tomorrow when I get a chance! Lots of love....

1 comment:

laurenk said...

I just think we all should be questioning if Mara is a reliable narrarator or not. I did not really cry. For the record. If anyone wants the "true" details of our trip, feel free to contact me. But she tells lovely stories. (albeit make-believe)