In seventh place is that well-known favourite the Hot Water Beach near Hahei in Coromandel. Around low tide hot springs flow down the beach and people dig themselves pools to use a hot tubs. You have to dig in just the right place: the hot streams can scald an unwary foot.
No 6: Wallaby road kill. We got used to seeing dead possums on the road every day after the previous night's inadvertent cull, but on one occasion we flashed past something large and grey with decidedly chunky thighs...
No 5: Steampunk HQ in Oamaru. Never heard of
steampunk? Neither had I! Oamaru is a small seaside town on the east coast of South Island, home to some outstanding Victorian buildings made from local limestone, little blue penguins, ...and a building with a wildly mutated locomotive in the front yard. Steampunk HQ is a totally bizarre museum of barely describable inventions, contraptions, aliens, displays and a dazzlingly brilliant Infinity Portal (all lights and mirrors and psychedelic music).
No 4. The McDonalds at Taupo. From one side it looks like a regular run-of-the-mill fast-food joint. Walk around the side and you see an unexpected annex.
Straight in at no 3... this bizarre building on the roadside between Fairlie and Lake Tekapo. It looked for all the world like a 50s film set or a land that time forgot. We stopped, hoping to get a coffee at the kiosk, but nobody was around.
Bubbling under the No 1 spot: the gents toilet in The Landing, Franz Josef Glacier village. We had a really nice meal here, and the beer (Speights Gold Medal) was good too. When I went for a pee I was amazed to find, over the urinal, a TV screen, showing the live cricket (World Cup). Quelle finesse!
Finally the top slot goes to this object beside the Keppler Track, between Rainbow Reach and the Lake Te Anau Control Gates. It requires no commentary.
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