Sealions, Seals and Penguins

Woke up at our nice campsite, packed up and headed off. We met our new friends at the next town, Owaka, and had a coffee before driving to Surat Bay in search of sea lions.

Female sealion

Sealion

We headed off along a track before reaching the beach, a short way along the beach the tide was very high and we took to high ground on the edge of the sand dunes. Well Chris, Phillipp and Silja did, I managed a small mound of sand and a big wave came in and soaked me to knee level. It wouldn’t have been so bad if I wasn’t wearing trainers! I squelched on until we found our first sea lion, which was hard to spot as half buried in sand.

Female sealion

We walked further, for about 2 ½ hours, and we managed to see 6 in total including 1 massive male swimming in the sea.

Female sealion

Just cannot believe just how huge they are.

Female sealion

Surat Bay

After returning to the car we took a drive to Kaka Point and our next campsite, checked in, had some lunch then went for a drive to Nugget Point to see the lighthouse and amazing views and then more yellow eyed Penguins.