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This morning’s activ­ity involved some very cold water, hooded wet­suits and a colony of New Zealand fur seals. Oh, and some snorkels. It was cold. Did I men­tion that already? It was also great, there are hun­dreds of thou­sands of seals liv­ing on the New Zealand coast. Their num­bers were sig­nif­i­cantly reduced as a result of the fur trade about 200 years ago. These par­tic­u­lar seals were thought to be extinct. Luck­ily for us — they weren’t. Our tour guide informed us that a par­tic­u­lar type of seal — I can’t remem­ber which one — is actu­ally more like a dog with flippers.

We finally found a good cof­fee — at a cafe called Sugar on the main street of Kaik­oura. The tem­per­a­ture was per­fect. Their big break­fast was also very big. We did have an abysmal fail­ure from the cafe next to the seal swim place — it must have been over 100 degrees — it was scalding.

I think a gen­eral rule for pick­ing some­where to have cof­fee in New Zealand is avoid­ing any­where serv­ing vivace or hum­ming­bird coffee.

There are pho­tos from our last cou­ple of days worth of activ­i­ties now stored in our New Zealand picassa album — seal pho­tos will be com­ing once we get the film devel­oped from our under­wa­ter dis­pos­able camera.

Today is win­ery day — which I must say I’m par­tic­u­larly look­ing for­ward to. Must be off. The grapes await.

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    you know, if you want a decent cup in Lon­don, just look for places staffed by Aussies or Kiwis.. that’s usu­ally a good sign it won’t be frothy.


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