Lovely night sleep in the creaky bunk beds, even though we weren’t leaving until 10am and could have a lie in my body was having none of it and was wide awake at 7am!

Not so bad though because I had time to sit in the cafe downstairs on some super comfy sofas and have a coffee.

Back on the road and as soon as we got in the van it started to rain, bloody great! Fingers crossed for some better weather!
Millions of sheep everywhere again, we are going to have to petition this vegan stuff... otherwise these sheep will be taking over the world! They’re already massively or numbering the kiwis, it’s worrying guys!

We stopped in the sausage capital of New Zealand, how exciting was that! Haha it was a bloody big tasty sausage roll aswell!

The sun thankfully came out this afternoon which allowed for a nice spot at one of the lakes on the way through, actually thought we were burning our heads it was that strong. The views as usual were spectacular with the mountains in the far distance all still with snow sitting on their peaks.

We got to Te Anu around 2.30pm, the gateway to the Fiordlands National Park the biggest in New Zealand ad home to a few great walks of the country aswell. A tiny little place with a very large lake in front of it.

Me and El headed over to the control gate for the Kepler Track, we didn’t have time today to walk the full 60km or so track but we did get to walk a little bit into the park and with a carrot sticks and hummus stop on the lake half way through the walk.

The place is empty apart from walkers staying in campervans which were taking over the car park. Such a lovey walk trough what seemed like a rainforest alongside the lake with those bloody lovey mountains in the background covered in snow!

We had all been put up in single private dorm rooms tonight because the bunk dorm rooms weren’t ready for the kiwi experience customers, what a privilege! It was very strange having our own single dorm, very quiet. But lovely to have your own space finally! No worries of waking people up on a squeaky bunk bed or hearing anyone snoring and people farting.
We did some much needed washing, made lunch for tomorrow, booked our onward journeys and had Thai red curry soup for dinner before we all sort of headed to our rooms to enjoy our own company for the night..... at 7pm. Haha!