Maybe I'm getting old, but I bloody love kayaking. And the introduction of the pedals and rudder knocked it up a knotch. It's brilliant. You just paddle in any direction, out of time and steer with the pedals. So easy and you can pick up such a speed!
The trip was to explore the coast line and in particular the Sliced Apple Rock. Apparently it is the 3rd most photographed sight in NZ. After this sort of press, I was a little surprised about how small it was. But cool all the same.
We pulled up on the remote beach and had a juice and some cookies.
We then had a little explore in the caves. It was all very enchanting.
We were very keen to keep paddling and the guide loved that so we went off on more of an explore. As we were gliding through the open water, I saw a little series of bubbles coming from the water and up popped a blue penguin! The funny thing is they sit on the surface of the water like little ducks. So funny. We saw a few more as we went. We were very lucky.
On we went on a search for the solitary seal who had been spotted on the rocks recently and to our amazement we found him. Ame cutely named him Samy the seal after Shap's new baby son Samyar (arhhh).
We wove our way through the rocks on the coast line and even went through a natural rock arch. Fun fun fun.
We returned to the beach fulfilled and extremely happy with our trip. This afternoon has been pretty rainy so me and Ame sat in a nice bar and caught up on a few jobs (this pic of Amy below is online while she is still in the very same position; isn't technology great). It's been lovely chilling out. Tomorrow we're off on a wine tour of the Marlborough region (which is Ame's favourite wine region of the world!)
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