!BLUE WHALE ALERT!

Today the whale watch boats were lucky enough to spot not one but 5 blue whales! it's hard enough to see one let alone 5, apparently they were moving north from the wates of Antarctica.

picture take by whale watch Kaikoura 4.1.13

 They are gigantic (the biggest mammal living on this planet!), but graceful, there are approximately fewer than 10,000 currently on the planet! unfortunately our dolphin boats didn't get to see them. I wished i could have hired the helicopter, but at $1200 /hour that would be half my life savings gone, i guess it would be a priceless moment, but my time to see these magnificent creatures will come. Luckily yesterday i did manage to see a sperm whale blow in the distance, we also had sightings of common dolphin and the skipper reckons he saw a basking shark move in front of the boat. We do sea blue sharks but less common are basking sharks. Jay the skipper said the shadow was pretty big, whatever it was it moved slowly....i love my office...you never know what suprises the ocean holds.