Whale Breath

Quotes of the day:

"You must be Irish." This from the bus driver as I tried to board on the wrong side. Does he think the only visitors to NZ are either Brits, Irish or Aussies? What would make me Irish by, like the residents of 200 other coutries in the world, I'm accustomed to left sided car?

"You cannot do laundry. There is no laundry. One machine is out of order and one machine is in use. By me." Imagine this with a heavy German accent and manner, from one of the roomies of the day, Rolf.

"Ugh. Whale breath." Quite right little man. A humpbakc whale surfaced near the boat and spouted out through the blow hole, thoroughly polluting the air with the scent of rotting crill. All to the delight of several leaping dolphins. A pod of ten were running with the whale and doign high sopeed passes in front of the boat. They were much more shy when we were actually in the frezzing cold water, but I did get a couple of drive by sightings. However, the cold water made me pant nearly uncontrollably and that might have been a slight turn-off. We were told to sing into our snorkels and, "Act dolphin-like." Right. I guess that would be quote #1.