So our next destination after Dunedin was the MacKenzie mountain range and in particular the star of the show, the tallest mountain Mount Cook. It was quite a long drive from where we were and with time on our side we decided to take an overnight stop in a small town called Waimate at Kelsey's Bush Animal Rescue Park. On the road to Waimate we passed through a town called Moeraki home to the much photographed Moeraki boulders. As you will see from the photo the boulders are perfectly spherical stones which have been buried in sandstone cliffs for millions of years. With erosion of the cliffs the hard round stones have been left exposed on the beach. It is a pretty impressive sight as there are dozens of these perfectly spherical stones scattered on a small section of the beach and you can see in the cliffs other boulders that are not yet fully excavated by the elements. After taking our own photos of the boulders it was on to Waimate. The campsite itself is a campsite with a difference in that it has an adjoining animal park that houses a variety of rescued and injured animals that would otherwise not survive in the wild. The park offers you the chance to meet and feed the animals twice a day and 3 times a day you can meet a newborn wallaby and watch it being fed. We arrived just in time for the baby wallaby feeding at 5.30pm. What a cute little guy he was, absolutely tiny and he was kept in a fleece hot water bottle cover so as to feel like his mums pouch. He was rejected by his mother and as such needs to be bottle fed on a regular basis to ensure his survival. After the feeding we were able to take a walk around the animal park and meet some of the other guests! There were 2 donkeys, a wild pig, sheep with their newborn lambs, a deer, 2 ostrich and their 2 babies, a minature horse, possoms, a peacock and the biggest turkey i have ever seen in my life. After our own little guided tour of the park it was starting to get dark so we found monopoly in the common room and spent the rest of the night bankrupting each other!The next morning we were up early for the animal feeding at 9am. We unfortunately had to share the experience with about 20 screaming children but the whole park is really designed with children in mind so we couldnt really complain! The man who runs the park takes you on a narrated tour of the animals, he tells you a bit about how they came to be at the park, what sort of care they needed when they first arrived then with some of the animals they give you food and let you feed them. I loved it because the man taking the tour kept calling me the big girl when it was my turn to try the feeding! It was a really nice tour and it was great hearing all the stories about how the animals were knocked over or caught in a trap then brought to the park and you all know how i love a story with a happy ending! By the end of the feeding we still had ten fingers each and a variety of animal drool to take away as a souvenir of our stay at Kelsey's Bush.