This video taken by the lovely Dom & Val 2 hours drive north of Christchurch in Kaikoura. Kai meaning “food” and Koura meaning plentiful (I think).
Basically the continental shelf goes from being super deep to super shallow – and this creates a massive upwelling of yummy foody stuff for fishies… it’s the place to do whale watching and dolphin swimming.
Sjoerd
December 2, 2010 at 7:26 am
Funny that. “Kai kai” is food in tok pisin (Papua New Guinea) as well.
Maaike
December 2, 2010 at 3:44 pm
as soon as you are here (yes) you should go to the Auckland museum where they have an exposition of history, culture, art and language in regards to maori and pasific islanders (and they include PNG with that): lots of similarities!