Act in Haast Repent at Leisure

Haast was such a bad place there are no pictures, It was the campsite from hell. Described as Haast Beach the only things it had that had anything connected with a beach were sandflys with insatiable appetites for human blood. The desolation and futility of the place affected the local people who were the most miserable we have encountered. We also drove a round trip of 52k to see penguins but saw only the roadsigns warning about them and we arrived at the much publicised fish and chip shop on the beach at Jackson Bay (or was it really Dunwich) as it was closing. Only one night and time to move on to happier times! But every cloud has a silver lining and that evening when we were hiding from the sandflys in the campsite kitchen we met a couple of teachers from Surrey who told us about a good site at Lake Wannaka which we were travelling to the next day. And they were more than right !