The footwear fence

 One route from Wanganui to Hamilton has a fairly long stretch of winding, narrow mountain pass road known as the para paras. Friends and acquaintances of ours avoid using this route, since passengers who are even slightly inclined, end up feeling awfully car sick.

If you don't try to go too fast and keep your eyes well up ahead, it's not too bad for me and because this route is significantly shorter than the alternative, we use it frequently. Jo also has this stretch of road as part of his responsibility, so knows it like the back of his hand and often will 'work' while we drive it!
Since our very first trip to Wanganui from Hamilton (back in 2009) we have been meaning to get this 'only one of a kind that we have ever seen', up on to the blog - so here it is.

For 250 meters (we measured it with the fancy gadget in the work ute) along the fence of some kiwi blokes'  property, there are old shoes, jandles, boots, slippers and all manner of obscure footwear tied to the wire - as far as you can see. It is quite an unusual sight as you come around the bend and we have regularly seen folks taking photograps here! Not that it's terribly safe to stop on the narrow, winding road, but I know we haven't seen anything like it before and so assume that there are others who are equallly fascinated.

We have no idea who lives there, why the shoes are tied to the fence, whether we could add our own tatty and/or worn out pairs of shoes or whether this is a temporary tourist attraction. Being as the 'footwear fence' has been in existence since at least 2009 and has decidedly been extended in that time, we assume it will stay. We guesstimate that there are 2,500 shoes tied along the fence, but there could easily be more!
Most une-usual!!
Dis al!