

Tourists rush to board a Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopter, one of several aircraft brought in to evacuate stranded visitors from Kaikoura yesterday. Photo from Reuters. : Please, we've got to get out of this place
Tourists rush to board a Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopter, one of several aircraft brought in to evacuate stranded visitors from Kaikoura yesterday. Photo from Reuters. : Please, we've got to get out of this place


Kaikoura resident Rebecca Keats comforts her children, Mabel and Brodie, and hopes to secure seats on an evacuation flight. Photos by Chris Morris. : Please, we've got to get out of this place
Kaikoura resident Rebecca Keats comforts her children, Mabel and Brodie, and hopes to secure seats on an evacuation flight. Photos by Chris Morris. : Please, we've got to get out of this place


A crowd gathers in Kaikoura to hear a public briefing from Mayor Winston Gray and other officials. : Please, we've got to get out of this place
A crowd gathers in Kaikoura to hear a public briefing from Mayor Winston Gray and other officials. : Please, we've got to get out of this place


Dutch visitors Jeleyn and Nico van der Meer, who remember a "very dark noise'' on Monday morning. : Please, we've got to get out of this place
Dutch visitors Jeleyn and Nico van der Meer, who remember a "very dark noise'' on Monday morning. : Please, we've got to get out of this place
Please, we've got to get out of this place
Otago Daily Times senior reporter Chris Morris observes life in quake-hit Kaikoura. Kaikoura is a paradise hundreds of tourists are desperate to...
