Wednesday 10-20-10 Random housing in the middle of the park

We slept well and slept in till 9:30am, and we smiled wide when we saw the blue sky and sunshine.  We had plenty of time to dry the rain fly of our tent while we ate breakfast and enjoyed the views to our private beach.  Once tramping again the trail climbed into the highlands and away from the ocean.  It was great to see the bush in this area, it is a lot of the same plants we have seen, but somehow slightly different.  For instance there are much more vines on the trees, the fern trees are bigger and the top of the ridges it seems like the high desert. 

We hit Torrent bay about mid day. We knew there was some vacation homes in the area (there is a lot of private land in the national parks here) but it felt like black butte. This was the place we were to camp at tonight, but it was all in the shade, had no view and just sucked.  We decided to cross our last low tide crossing. A side note my new boots rubbed the skin off on the left heel ( I know shocking) so when we came to a small river crossing we were not wanting to take off my bandages. Paul being wonderful waded across the river with his packed dropped it off walked back across piggybacked me and my pack. With freezing feet for Paul and dry raw heels for Shabree we hit the trail and walked for 5 min to our poached campground the Anchorage!  

We we arrived we were the second tent. So we ditched our packs in the tent and walked to this point that we thought we could see penguins. An hour later and no penguins, we walked back to our tent to see about 6 more tents.  Every tent seemed to be spread out when Paul says "Are you kidding me!" Right next to our tent was another tent. We are talking 3 feet away.  Irritated and confused by this person we read our books and tried to ignore him. He then went to a picnic table right next to a lady's tent across the way.  After dinner we went to our tent and heard someone using the picnic table right by our tent. We tried not to be to annoyed since there were few tables, but we wanted to see who was using it. It was the girl who was across the camp, since the moron that tented right next to ours was using her table. And worse this guy snored all night!