We had to check out of the Hotel by 1000 after breakfast. Our room rate which did include what the Hotel receptionist called a wonderful buffet breakfast was in fact not quite as wonderful as we think. A wonderful buffet breakfast to us conjures up images of past Hotels and lovely hotspots not powdered scrambled eggs with strange tasting bacon.
We did a quick tour of another camp site which we had previously rejected on the grounds they had nicely notified us and explained that on their camping grounds space for tents was very limited. We
would agree after looking around for about ten minutes and then headed off down the lake to the Te Anau Lakeview Holiday Park where we are booked for about six nights. We wandered around the site to find the best location we could and started setting up the tent and blow up bed etc, it took just over an hour. With our other big tent we have at home, perhaps we take too much stuff and then it takes us up to four hours to get ready.
It was now time to head back to town for some shopping and also look at tours to Doubtful Sound. They had space on Thursday and they reckoned that the weather would be very good and so we should go tomorrow rather than the day after. We were unsure as Jennifer wanted to get her ear checked again as it is a public holiday here on Friday and also the doctors would be closed over the weekend.
So we made a quick visit to the Doctor at the Te Anau Health Centre which is more like an old wartime hut than a modern health centre like the one we visited in
Anyway, the Doctor pronounced her sort of fit and well enough to go on the trip tomorrow and so we went back and booked it.
Noel did the food shopping whilst Jennifer was at the health centre and of course he bought more than we needed, but as he said, you never know when an earthquake will come.
The facilities at the campsite (
And so to bed after a steak and salad together with a glass of red wine.
