Bongo! We planned to do the Tasman Glacier walk and get a shower at the local traveller shelter before we headed off for good. The Tasman Glacier walk was fantastic, it wasn’t quite as impressive as the previous days walk but it was still really good. We also checked out the Blue Lakes. We then headed back to Mount Cook village for one last time and drove round to the travellers shelter, which was a huge shelter complete with free hot water, loads of local information and a shower!!! It was really good to be able to have a shower, they really do look after you well in New Zealand! After feeling all refreshed and clean we headed off to our next stop with wasn’t too far away - Lake Pukaki.

The colour of this lake is an amazing turquoise and it seemed to glisten with the reflections of the surrounding mountains. We found a free campsite and parked up for the night. It was a fantastic spot and

there was only one more campervan there! As it went dark a couple more campervans pulled up which didn’t matter as the place was vast and you could hardly describe it as being full! We were miles away from anything it was so peaceful and so dark! We had a bottle of wine and were sat playing cards with some music on when we heard a knock on the door. We didn’t want to open it as it was quite late, so I asked ‘who is it?’ and we heard a female voice saying ‘oh you have to help us’ and I said ‘erm why?’ they said ‘you have to help us, because we have an animal in our car’ and said ‘what kind of animal’ and they said ‘oh we don’t know, we just heard something and we were scared’, we both looked at each other in a slightly confused manner and said ‘what do you want us to do about it’ they said ‘get it out’ so I said ‘I’m sorry we are in bed and we can not help you’!!! It was very strange and my heart was pounding, we couldn’t quite work out what was going on, it