Kaikoura
1st March 6.45 am - about 2km off the coast of Kaikoura
I can already see dolphins, one or two of them, swimming up to the back of the boat. I point them out to our guide who just shakes her head. I'm thinking,"there are some dolphins in the water, we've paid to go swimming with them, so lets get our money's worth and jump overboard." But we just motor on past them, heading further out into the ocean. About five minutes later we all see 
what our guide was looking for and realise why we didn't stop earlier. The sea around us has been turned into a soup of dolphins. They are everywhere. Our guide estimates there are about
four hundred of them in the pod. Four hundred ! Now it's time to go swimming. So we slip off the back of the boat and into the water. We were told at the dolphin encounter briefing earlier in the day that we were there to entertain the dolphins, 
not the other way round. The best way to attract them to you was to make silly noises, swim round in circles and dive down. But given the vast numbers of dolphins around us that wasn't strictly necessary. It helped to bring 3/4 of them right up close. About 2 feet away, but otherwise you could just bob around, mask/face down in the water and watch wave after wave of dolphins swim past.
I can already see dolphins, one or two of them, swimming up to the back of the boat. I point them out to our guide who just shakes her head. I'm thinking,"there are some dolphins in the water, we've paid to go swimming with them, so lets get our money's worth and jump overboard." But we just motor on past them, heading further out into the ocean. About five minutes later we all see 
what our guide was looking for and realise why we didn't stop earlier. The sea around us has been turned into a soup of dolphins. They are everywhere. Our guide estimates there are about
four hundred of them in the pod. Four hundred ! Now it's time to go swimming. So we slip off the back of the boat and into the water. We were told at the dolphin encounter briefing earlier in the day that we were there to entertain the dolphins, 
not the other way round. The best way to attract them to you was to make silly noises, swim round in circles and dive down. But given the vast numbers of dolphins around us that wasn't strictly necessary. It helped to bring 3/4 of them right up close. About 2 feet away, but otherwise you could just bob around, mask/face down in the water and watch wave after wave of dolphins swim past.
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