The alarm sounds...it's before 5am. Could this be right? Is it set to the correct time zone? Yes, this is even the reason we are in Kaikoura, to go swimming with dolphins. We crawl out of our toasty sleeping bags, into the dark night, hop in the car and head down to the sea. Once fitted with wetsuits, hoods, fins, snorkels & masks we are loaded onto a bus and then onto our boat. We had only 10-15 divers in our group, so it was a nicely manageable troop. With the sun rising as we sped out to sea, the breeze waking sleepy eyes. With our experienced captain at the wheel we found our first pod of duskys in no time. The horn sounded to indicate that the propeller had stopped turning, and in we slid
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