Busy day in NZ

Today we're going swimming with the Dolphins again! We booked twice as the dolphins are wild and so you're never sure if you get to see them. So here we go again Yay!
We take the boat out and after 20 minutes we jump in the water in the midst of about 30 dolphins. Emmanuelle and I are again very fortunate to have the dolphins come see us more than the other swimmers. I dive down and swim as fast as I possibly can, I find myself in the middle of 6 dolphins testing me. They keep the same speed as I, which to a Dolphin must be somewhere between 'not moving' and 'freaking slow'. To get me to go faster they spin around me and flash left, right, above and below past me. I'm having so much fun that I forget to breathe, it takes me 5 minutes to recover. That, of course is waaay too long for a dolphin that wants to play, so they set course for Emmanuelle and swim around her. We repeat this until I'm really on the verge of passing out. This was fantastic. I really wish I could do this every day, nothing really compares to it.

Back in Kaikoura we decide to go fishing, a couple of phone calls later, we've got ourselves a charter. First we go and check the Crayfish Pods and Hey! Emmanuelle gets a carpet shark (why is it called a Carpet Shark? Well because it smells of old, wet carpet of course) and I get not one, not two but three crayfish! Who's the better fisherman now, hey? ey? ey? ey?...

"Man hunt and fish! Woman wash and cook!" I grunt in my primal voice.

But beginners luck is more powerful than any skill... Emmanuelle, after having caught 5 sea-perch, gets a serious nibble, she works hard to raise the sea-monster from the deep aaanddd... She catches two blue cods in one haul! Catch of the day! I try to regain my honor by catching 2 small sharks, but the double-cod wins! Emmanuelle lets me know that I'd better stick to pot and pans and let her take care of business from now on. So I make a fantastic dinner out of the crayfish sea perch and blue cod at the hostel. The tree hugging, vegetarian, noodle chewing hippies look jealous. Gni gni gni.
It seems the captain and his assistant like us, as they invite us to go paintballing that same evening; I got shot 10 times and now have 5 very nice bruises on my back.