A query for New Zealanders

[poolboy jackson]

On TV last night on 'Neighbours At War' —and No, I wasn't in it— there was a fifty-feet high clock on a hillside above the river with metal hands and 12 white pointers.

Where is this place? Somewhere near Queenstown?

[Recreated355]

what river?

[poolboy jackson]

what river?

It was a narrow river with green water between rocky gorges. The town in Otago province had a traditional non-Maori name.

I would have thought such a massive clock would have been a tourist attraction but I can't see anything in Google.

[Recreated355]

It was a narrow river with green water between rocky gorges. The town in Otago province had a traditional non-Maori name.

I would have thought such a massive clock would have been a tourist attraction but I can't see anything in Google.
So it's in Otago?
I went there once when i was 7, i think. Ummm
Dunedin?
Gore?
There are lots of clocktowers in New Zealand - we like to know the time, and watches are scarce.

[TheOldie]

?

http://www.queenstown.world-guides.com/queenstown_attractions_nr.html

[Brightside05]

The town in Otago province had a traditional non-Maori name.

Otago is pretty scottish.

[poolboy jackson]

http://www.world-guides.com/images/wanaka/wanaka_nr_arrowtown.jpg

This is it!
Lovely Roger (who also has that silly avatar name of 'oldie') is in the tourist industry found it. It seems this clock overlooks a town named Arrowtown in the middle of South Island.

This close up view isn't very flattering. It was shrouded in the mist on the TV show and I'm sure I saw a few hobbits wandering round the 6'oclock pointer.

[Recreated355]

Oh Arrowtown! Chilly in winter, pack an extra sweater.

[poolboy jackson]

Is Arrowtown in any way special? Do they have mines to extract metal to make Hobbit's arrows?

The scenery looked rugged and wild but all the houses on this show seem so fibro/masonite/ weatherboard and ill-proportioned.

[Brightside05]

From the movies I've gathered Hobbits eschew arrows and prefer to use any metal they may have on trowels and the sort.

[badamj2000]

I find so many NZers to be weird inbred and miserable, just saying. Its like one big Adelaide. Perhaps its just me....

[Dash80]

I grew up around 45 minutes from Arrowtown. Famous for its mines, they have kept the town as a heritage type place. Its a big tourist attraction, there used to be shows and you could go pan the river for gold. I still have the four specks I found as a 6 year old.

[badamj2000]

No one takes me anywhere

[TheOldie]

Glad that was it.

You just have to know how to google. With my job its a must and you learn to change around key words and voila ! there it was.

[wysiwyg_syd]

are you a flight stewardess?

[poolboy jackson]

…I went there once when i was 7…
…the four specks I found as a 6 year old.
—synchronicity, under the gaze of the Big Clock—