It had been a lovely, peaceful night. After brekky we hit the road which was fairly quiet today with only the occasional aggressive tailgater! The weather was gorgeous with a blue sky and wispy clouds. It took us about an hour and a half to get to Te Anau which is situated on Lake Te Anau. It is the largest lake by water volume in Australasia. It was a lovely quiet town on a picturesque lake and such a contrast to brash and commercial Queenstown. We had a walk beside the lake and took some photos of the big blue Takahe bird in the centre of town. We also had a look around the shops and found the shop assistants of Te Anau to be amongst the most miserable we have come across. They couldn't, however, beat the dour face and miserable attitude of the gift shop woman at Pancake Rocks who treated us like ***** or indeed the aggressive faced woman in a Countdown supermarket who threw a chicken at Jay!!! We had originally intended to stop the night in Te Anau but instead decided to drive twenty kilometres further down to a little place called Manapouri on Lake Manapouri. We wanted to check out a holiday park here that had a five star rating. It seemed like ever such a lovely place as we proceeded down the driveway to the reception. It was a big place with nice spread out sites separated by bushes and there was no one else there. The woman on reception had a bit of a stern attitude and was in the process of reprimanding both a poor little dog and a young child when I entered her domain to check us in. She took our money and then showed me the facilities which were right behind her little reception desk room. There was a row of unisex showers and toilets on one side and a huge kitchen on the other. It was very modern and completely immaculate. She told me that we could go and choose any of the powered sites. Unfortunately, however, we chose the wrong one! The sites were separated and obscured from the reception/amenities building by a house but this funny woman must have had secret cameras or followed us by stealth as all of a sudden she sprang up from behind a bush waving and indicating that we couldn't go on that site. She pointed to the other side of the site. With us both feeling shameful and as severely reprimanded as the little dog and the child we set up elsewhere desperately trying to decide on the best place to go to avoid any annoying people that could turn up later on. We couldn't avoid the picnic tables as they were all over the place like a big wooden seated rash! We chose a site on the end as far away from the funny woman as possible but we both felt like we were being watched. We could feel her eyes bearing down and scrutinising us! We couldn't see her and there were no CCTV cameras that we could find but somehow she was with us. We wanted to move the picnic table away from us as they cause the neanderthals to shout 'piiiiiiiicniiiiiiiiic taaaaaaaaable' and cosy up near us. We didn't dare touch it though as we knew that if we did the funny woman would appear and reprimand us again! It was like being on a weird camping Big Brother. We are sure that the bushes were bugged with secret cameras and microphones and that we were under constant surveillance from the house! It was however lovely and peaceful here and we had an incredible view of the mountains in the distance. Our peace was shattered later when some Germans arrived and seemingly transfixed by the gleaming 'piiiiiiiiicniiiiiiiiiiiic taaaaaaable' near to us they parked up next door when there were loads of more private places they could have chosen. To solve this problem we moved to a more private place. As we were driving round the site to our new spot Jay noticed that the funny woman was standing watching us with her hands on her hips!! We continued this strange episode of camping Big Brother from our new spot. We both managed to hold our bladders until nearly dark to avoid the funny woman who we felt by now must have it in for us! We successfully managed to get to the toilets without seeing the funny woman or any Germans and availed ourselves of the facilities. We felt though like we had eyes burning into the back of our necks all the way there and back. On the way back from the facilities we saw an incredible sight. There were lots of low clouds slowly crawling and swirling through the valley. It looked very mystical,other worldly and a bit paranormal. We went to sleep to the sound of whirring cameras and crackling microphones!