Over the last fifteen months, a new day walk has opened up around the peninsula. This has splendid cliff views, the sea fading into the limitless distance. Next stop (so long as you're not blown too far south); Chile!
It's a great walk, supposedly about three hours, but we took nearer five what with stopping to ooh at the views, take pictures, climb down and up cliffs and chat to amiable acquaintances met on the way.
Inland of the peninsula are the Kaikoura Seaward mountains, shown here in cloud wreathed portentousness. For a while these were called the Lookers On, but then people realised that Cook gave the name to the peninsula itself. When he first sailed this coast, 57 Maori came out and looked at the Endeavour from their wakas, but refused to come close enough for contact. He named the almost-island the Lookers On after these people, but fortunately the prettier Maori name has stuck.
The name means 'eating crayfish' (kai, food and kouri, crayfish, which are superabundant in the waters here).