Then we walked back to the car park to head off in the opposite direction to visit the largest limestone arch in New Zealand (possibly) while walking to this cave Sarah asked me if I'd turned the lights off as we had had to have them on traveling through the forest. I replied "Of course I did" and we continued on our way. The second arch was a little disappointing but by this time I had started to have my doubts about the lights being turned off. So I ran on ahead only to find the lights were on their last legs, the central locking would not work, the car wouldn't start we were stranded in the middle of nowhere with little chance of the AA coming to rescue us in the foreseeable future................
Du Du Dah!!!
What were we going to do, would we starve, No, would we die of thirst, No we had all the stuff we needed in the car. Luckily there was a dreadlocked NZ gentleman having a cuppa with his girl friend he had a set of jump leads and was able to start our Spaceship. We made a generous donation to their evening bar tab. We were so bothered about the flat battery we drove continuously for 3 hours without stopping, and when we did stop it was in a garage and we left it running until we checked they had jump leads. Sarah has made a big notice for on the dash board so I DONT forget again!
Once we were happy the Spaceship was OK we were able to go to our campsite. The following day we visited yet another set of waterfalls, Mauri Falls.
Our motto is now never get the car cleaned or check tyre/ oil levels as this is a foreboding sign of imminent disaster.
OH NO the car must have sensed our lack of trust so we woke up this morning to a flare tyre. So much for doing a kind deed as yesterday we gave a lift to two Swedish people whose transport hadn't turned up at the end of a day's trekking.
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