Days 92 to 100 from 165 One highlight we promised ourselves in New Zealand was to swim with dolphins, and as such we had booked some months ago to do so at Kaikoura, on the east coast of South Island. We had been very concerned, therefore, when in November last year the town was cut off by a M7.8 earthquake nearby. But, as you may have seen from our last blog, access has improved. So, we were here and ready to swim with dolphins. Kaikoura is blessed with much wildlife - dolphins, whales, seals, albatross, .... - because a deep sea trench rises just off the coast. This brings in plankton, krill and other such low-on-the-food-chain life which due to the meeting of deep sea and surface waters brings much of this within reach in the
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