Flexible bus tour for adventurous travellers
Kaikoura DEALS
Means ’meal of crayfish’. It started as a whaling base and you could say that it still is – although now people come to see the whales rather than catch them, Whaling was the first big export industry for New Zealand and much of the first European settlement was with whaling bases. The first one in Kaikoura was established in 1842 by Robert Fyffe. The whales were sought mainly for oil. At first the whaling stations were very successful but in many places whales quickly became rare so the business slowed down significantly by the 1850s. There are over 79 species of whale and dolphin in the world today. About 34 of these have been sighted in New Zealand waters, over half of these in the waters off Kaikoura. There is a deep sea trench only a couple of kilometres off the coast from here so you don’t have to go very far to gain access to a wide variety of mammals. This makes it one of the best places in the world to go whale spotting. The Sperm Whales are the most common seen in Kaikoura but you sometimes also see Right Whales, Minke Whales, Blue Whales, Killer Whales and Humpback Whales. The Humpback passes through Kaikoura on its annual migration to Antarctic waters to feed. You have options of swimming with the seals, whale watching, swimming with dolphins or checking out a local vineyard while in Kaikoura.
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