We had to be up fairly early the next morning ready to set off on our journey South. So after a tearful farewell we set off and drove for ages, saw lots of amazing views, visited a beach (I climbed a pole, but no one wanted to race me on the second one as is custom apparently) So yeh the least eventful day so far, but tomorrow we drive through Arthur's Pass, the highest road in New Zealand!....So the weather was rubbish for driving through the pass so I slept for most of the day.... how annoying.
Luckily the mood didn't stay low for long as the following morning we rose early to go swimming with dolphins in Akaroa! (The smallest, rarest marine dolphin in the world) which was absolutely awesome, took a while to find them in the sea but once we were in the water more just kept on coming! As a plus we also saw the smallest penguin in the world whilst we were at it. Result. Spent the morning in Akaroa (Which is primarily inhabited by French which they make plainly obvious by flying French flags from the windows and using 'le francais' on all the street signs.) before driving on to Lake Tekapo which was a beautiful sight of a little chapel looking out across the mountains. It might have been better if we hadn't had to endure Mum and Dad saying "Oooooooh it's not how we remember it!" every 30 seconds. So with them thoroughly dissapointed that it seemed far less "remote" than it had once been we drove on for Mount Cook where we were to camp for the night!
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