New Zealand Out-Takes, 2

It's time again for another episode of everyone's favorite, New Zealand Out-Takes!

When filming of The Lord of the Rings concluded in 2000, all
the sets and sites were dismantled and removed; but not all
the orcs and uruk-hai were accounted for; and so the
Department of Conservation went about constructing a
number of pit-traps--this one on the Greenstone Track--in
order to ensnare the missing creatures; neither DOC nor
NewLine Cinema has ever commented on the effectiveness
of these traps...

New Zealand pumpkins: trick or treat! Maybe
it's because of the hole in the ozone layer?

Seen at hiking carparks across the Island; this
is their version of "stand your ground"

On the Kawarau, near the Argonaths

Signage at AJ Hackett Bungy

At touristy places one also occasionally sees "please do not
stand on the toilet seats" signs

Details at 10

Old police station in Hoki

North of Greymouth

Vegetable eruption at Punakaiki Rocks

Up closer

Unusual leaf pattern on a flax plant

Still processing this one...

Scenic view carpark; we were the only non-RV

RV of our dreams, near Murchison; I'll have a separate post
on such vehicles soon; they are not really all that uncommon
in New Zealand; note the slide-outs

Around Motueke and Riwaka is where they grow the hops (as in beer)

It's a small operation, but makes the best, hoppiest, IPA I've
had yet