Watch Out for Those Gulls!

The sea gulls are vicious here. They'll stop at nothing to get their beaks on some human grub.

At the Kaikoura Winery, the woman behind the counter said she would wait until we were actually sitting at a table before she brought the cheese tray out. Because the gulls would try to take the snacks.

I went inside to ask the woman to take our picture. Couldn't have been inside more than 20 seconds. As I walked back out the door, "HEY! Get off our food!" The gulls attacked. Thankfully, the winery was willing to give us a little more cheese to replace what the freakin' birds munched. It was a good laugh.

We were warned about them again at the open-window pub in downtown Kaikoura. They said the gulls would actually swoop down to the tables by the windows and grab food off your plate.

Fortunately, they didn't repeat their winery shenanigans.