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AllieMark: Picnic lunch near Kekehungu
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AllieMark: It looks chilly, but the air is comfortably warm
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AllieMark: Testing the waters...they are COLD
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AllieMark: In Kaikoura, we start out through town on the 4-hour loop
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AllieMark: Allie revists her inner child on the swings
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AllieMark: Whee!
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AllieMark: Mark eggs her on to go higher and higher
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AllieMark: Mark then tries the swing, but Allie is camera-challenged. This is the only photo with Mark in the swing.
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AllieMark: Mark is swinging, can't you just seem him...off to the right
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AllieMark: Our walk takes us by the Old Pier, an area now abandoned and slated for redevelopment
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AllieMark: This boy keeps jumping into the chilly water
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AllieMark: Looking back to Kaikoura town from the old pier
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AllieMark: One of the abandoned buildings, a shellfish factory
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AllieMark: A GIANT dahlia, cradled by Mark's hand
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AllieMark: An old fireplace, from a customs shed
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AllieMark: We meet our first NZ fur seal
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AllieMark: The seals are crashed out, and smell
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AllieMark: Don't bother me, I'm napping
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AllieMark: Signage about the area and wharf
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AllieMark: Another sleeping seal, perched precariously on a wall
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AllieMark: Mark finds a whale bone on an old whaling beach
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AllieMark: An elusive creature, Mark is captured on camera
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AllieMark: At the lookout for the seal colony
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AllieMark: On the Kaikoura Peninsula walk, with the seal colony cove
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AllieMark: Looking out over the seal colony area
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AllieMark: Mark realizes he doesn't have the camera
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AllieMark: We wonder how these massive trees must have looked before they were cut down
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AllieMark: Sun breaking through the clouds
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AllieMark: Waves wash over the tip of the peninsula, creating a safe spot for seals
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AllieMark: The seal colony cove - we can see about 20 seals lying on the rocks or swimming