NZ South Island Motorhome Road trip 2018 Day 2

The next morning , we checked out early and make our way to the airport , cos we arranged for the free pick up for Wilderness there. the only provide free pick up either from airport or nearby airport hotel, if you are staying in the city centre , you have to make your own way there or to any of their free pick up point.
As mentioned , to save $4/pax , we stopped one bus stop before the airport , which is the same place we boarded the bus yesterday.Had a quick breakfast before making our way back to the airport. This meal with 1 coffee and 1 orange juice cost us almost $28 ! ......
After breakfast , did a quick round at the Countdown next to it to get some water and wow the types of chocolate available is WOW ! i did not even take pictures of the Cadbury's range.
We then make way back to the airport , called Wilderness and waited for the to pick us up. It was a short drive from the airport , and since we got all insurance coverage , handling over was very fast as you do not need to check on a lot of stuffs. First they will let you watch some videos ( which i saw all online already ) then brief you on some of the important things and then gave some informations and then off you go. Still it will take about 1-2 hours for all these though , the staff was very friendly and everything went smoothly.

Sink/Stove area

Driving and Dining area

Twin beds , can combine to become one big bed

Stove/Sink/Fridge/Oven area

Fridge + built in gas oven

Toilet bowl + cabinet

Partition "wall" to covert to shower area

The shower area after the partition

These photos of the motorhome interior was taken the day after cos first day we did not had time cos we were rushing to go to the supermarket to pick up groceries and also was trying to reach Lake Tekapo before sunset.Was also hopping to visit a pie shop in Fairle on our way to Lake Tekapo. So it looks a bit messy.
We drove to the Pak'nSave in Hornby ( there are quite a few different supermarket in NZ south island  and read online that Pak'nSave is the cheapest and it really was for most things if other supermarket is not having discount/promotions. We bought quite a lot of things as we will be going Mt.Cook in few days time and there is not supermarket there so we thought might as well top up on food and drinks.Also we need to get those basic stuffs like trash bag , toilet rolls , kitchen rolls , seasoning , oil and etc. Think we spent about $250 ? just on all these.

Finally country road

Pork belly with apple sauce and crackling

Sky getting dark, on the way to Lake Tekapo

By the time we finished our groceries shopping , it's already almost 2:30 pm and the drive from Hornby to Fairlie Bakehouse is about 2 hr 30 min, I totally forgotten that they closed at 4:30pm .... did a FB msg to them and was trying my luck to see if they closed later but no luck, however they told me that the BP at the junction not far from them does sell their pies , in fact they had a few locations selling their pies. Can refer to here if you can't make it to their shop. Do try they Steak and Cheese one , personal favourite.
By the time we reach Lake Tekapo was already almost dark , we decided to detour just to take a look at The Church of the Good Shepherd before heading to our "private" campground for the night ...... which turns out to be a nightmare .......

We got our motorhome STUCK in the mud !!!!!! We had booked a private campground from Campable and was given the instruction .... it stated that after 200 m from the cattle stop , turn left and find a flat spot to park for the night. As it was our first time coming across the word " Cattle Stop" so we do not really had any idea what it was. So we saw a sign and said cattle stop , then we past a while gate of some sort and there was a slip road by the left so we decided to just turn in and went up a slope, then we saw a open space and just drive ahead. As we arrived late , so we did not see carefully and just continue to drive in ( though we saw some muddy track in front ) and before we knew it , the front wheels were stuck in the mud. We try to find planks ( there was none ) and try to find some stones to see if we can fill in the gap but nothing helps , only to end up with some mud all over me. I seriously almost cry ! this is the first night we on our motorhome , and Lake Tekapo supposed to have very nice night sky ( we had wanted to star glaze and take photos ).
After seeing there was no way we gonna get out of the mess , we decided to stay stuck for the night , unpack our baggages and just settle with a quick shower and simple dinner then rest for the night. Cos it might be expensive for use to call for tow services at night also they might have problem getting us out as it was late night. It was super windy that night and even though our front wheel was stuck , the howling wind actually shake the motorhome on and off.
It was a really bad start of a supposed to be wonderful holiday but we decided to just sleep it off and make for the worst tomorrow morning when we call the AA for road help services.