September 17

Today is much better, nice and sunny mixed with short sprinkles. I thought today would be as good a time as any to check out all of the signs in Piha. I simply walked around taking photos of all the signs, street signs, business signs, road signs, ads, warnings, informational signs, plaques, monuments, descriptions, everything. These are all pretty valuable and give me a little insight as to who comes here most (tourist or local oriented signs), ideas of the values of society (Dont drink drive, neighborhood watch, graphitti). The most important ones for me and my project today was the informational surfboard signs. Implemented by the Regional Council for Tourism. The boards were designed and created by someone with obviously thought on who is reading it what to teach them and where the information needs to be placed. Seems to be working well as they are highly visible as well as giving good information (Locations/beach ettiquete) and educational information (History/wildlife) May have to do a case study on signage