Signs and Portents, North Island Edition

No lame poor tents pun this time because Old Nylonsides is holding up well. Here’s your second installment from my collection of sign photos.

Let’s start with Te Reo Māori, the Māori language. I’ll have to comment on this more in a later post, but of all the places I’ve been in my various travels, I’ve never seen an indigenous culture fare so well against its colonizer as the Māori people. Bilingual representation in a simple caution sign is just one case in point.

Next up: you can tell a lot about a culture by its signage.

And its geography too….

Finally, wildlife. Kiwi protection I understand. Frankenstein’s monster protection, not so much.