Blot On The Landscape?

Signs like this are everywhere in the South island, and I can't help wondering why they are necessary. Could it be that some camper van hire companies are justifying their prices to the customers by telling them they can save money by "freedom camping?" It's at the point where these signs are an intrusion in otherwise pretty spots.

CYCLE TOUR - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

March 25th 2010
Gentle Readers, At 11.51 am yesterday I reached Bluff. Whew! I shoved the Beast of Burden up a steep hill to a café overlooking that famous sign - the one with all the place names - and sat down to a meal of raw Bluff oysters and blue cod and chips and hot chocolate. Then I rode back the way I’d come to Invercargill, in cold rain and with a fierce westerly. The Vital Statistics ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Bluff

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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