A production line was set up so that those who checked in on Tuesday evening were passed on to census staff and those staff were on hand yesterday morning to receive forms and catch the odd person they had missed as they checked out, such as Canadian backpacker Tyler Tiemstra.
Among the campers was a group of about 50 pupils and teachers from a Canterbury school and about 40 pupils and teachers from Germany.
St Kilda district supervisor Bruce Beath said a card with the German translation of the relevant census questions hadhelped.
Most of the tourists were from the United Kingdom and Europe, so translation had not been too much of a problem, he said.
''The staff here were also very helpful handing out forms to those who had already checked in.''
Otago South Canterbury area manager Bryan Bishop said using local people with local knowledge as collectors meant even a few freedom campers were delivered census forms.
Yesterday was a quiet for collectors who waited to hear at which addresses people had filled their forms online, so did not need forms collected.
Statistics Minister Maurice Williamson said the online response to the census was great, with more than 1.7 million individual and dwelling forms completed online on Tuesday night.
It was not too late to fill in census forms as collectors would be picking up paper forms until March 17. People could also still complete census forms online.
