On Street Signs

Okay, so you know how roads often have those diamond-shaped yellow signs with a deer on them, or a branch coming off for a road ahead, etc? I'd like to meet whomever is in charge of the road signs down here - I think we'd get along. They take "windy road" and "hidden drive" signs very seriously. No one-sign-fits-all, oh no! A different sign for each unique situation! 


I managed to miss getting a picture of each of the most ridiculous signs we passed, either because I was driving or was just too slow with the camera :p . Also, the signs were better up in the Coromandel, and in Northland, where the "highways" were more windy. However, this link will give you a rough idea of what was common (I kid you not) up there.

There are lots of billboards for safe driving along the roads, but the district of Rotorura had different ones from the rest of the North Island. With OWLS! Owls with all sorts of expressions - the one that was tired was pretty cute in a sad way, but I didn't manage to get a photo. Anyhow, I liked these signs more than the regular ones.






Then there are signs saying "merge like a zip!" At first we thought it was some sort of inside-kiwi joke that we didn't understand until we finally clued in that they meant like a zipper, ie, alternate lanes... oops...

A few days ago, we drove past a nuclear reactor. I took a picture. Today we drove past a huge wind farm. I neglected to take a picture.


Over and out,

Marysa