You have to love a place that calls itself
Hoki, and especially if it is home to the Museum of Sock Manufacturing Machines. Hoki is all this and more, featuring itself as the artsy-fartsy capital of the South Island. Anyhow, we like it, and spent a morning visiting its several shoppes and boutiques before lunch on the beach.
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But before Hoki, Okarita, setting for one of New Zealand's
Booker prize winners |
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| Okarita Lagoon |
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| Hokitika town clock |
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| The world famous Hokitika Sock Manufacturing Museum |
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| Thus |
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| Thus, up closer |
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| Larger machines; we bought Penelope some kiwi socks... |
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| In one of the greenstone (jade) workshoppes |
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In another, looking at a pile of raw material, which they will
not sell...the supply is limited, and this is what the jewelry
comes from... |
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| Old town free library, now town museum |
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They say it's your second book that determines
whether you'll be a real writer...how about if
your second book wins the Mann Booker and
you're 26 years old; the movie will be shot on
location in Hoki...you heard it first here |
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| Hoki has lots of outdoor sculpture, this being some...sort of |
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| Driftwood sculpture is big here |
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| Thus |
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