Staying up until 4:30am was rather painful at 6:00am when I woke up. We (Nir, Nadav, Ben, Gilad (another dude that's been traveling with Nir and Nadav) and myself) had one more person in our kayaking goup - her name is Maria, and surprisingly she is Israeli as well..
The way this works is that we take a bus from Nelson for about 1hr, then a water taxi (a name for a small boat) another 30 min to the starting point. Then we kayak for a few hours, and are picked up by a water taxi for another 15 min ride, and finally a bus back to Nelson.
The kayaking was quite fun especially in light of the good weather. The views were very pretty and we got to see a whole bunch of seals. In the first half of the day, I learned that one can get sea sick from a kayak. There's no doubt now - I'm neither a bird nor a fish.
Lunch was provided by the tour guide, and since we have Nir and Nadav in the group it was clear that everything would be cleared. The water taxi back thought he a jet boat, and did quite a few fancy stuff, which was rather fun.
Dinner section: Since the next day the bunch are going to the north island and we'd be separating, so we figured we'd have a good last meal (better than what Jesus got for sure). So steaks, mash potatos, and mashroom cream souce was agreed upon. Very good as always.
The evening was concluded by a yaniv session, where I came in last (it was bound to happen eventually).
PICTURES: I have posted new photos at: http://www.ist.caltech.edu/~idaniel/Data/NZ%20Pics/ where the relevant file is "April 11-29.zip". It also includes a video of feeding a Kea.
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