5 Star PADI Dive Centre. You can dive the kelp forests and limestone reefs on guided scuba diving tours with them.
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Swimming with dolphins or just watching them. Mainly the dusky dolphin species, though other species may be about. Café Encounter is open 7AM–5PM in summer and 7:30AM–4:30PM in winter and gets good reviews.
Kayak with seals and dolphins.
It has exhibitions about the 2016 earthquake, natural history and social history. The distinctive outside of the building is built to resemble a crayfish pot made of supplejack.
Offers whale watching tours both from boat and from the air. Tours subject to weather conditions.
Kaikoura's oldest building. The earliest part, built in the 1842, sits on whale vertebrae foundations.