
Which makes me wonder: do other countries share the same problem? I've travelled a fair bit and can't recall having seen such a profligacy in other parts. On a few rare instances I've even had to go bush for emergency No 2s, but I've been mindful to go well away from where anyone might walk and always done my best to bury it.

Now, as a man, I'm well acquainted with peeing discreetly in the shrubbery. Given humans have been devising ways to capture and dispose of our own waste for thousands of years, it seems a great leap backwards to have people crapping all over the countryside. It's easy to get fired up about people using the landscape as a latrine. I'm not sure if this was because the earthquake had diverted a lot of tourist traffic away from the town, the area has more dunnies, or whether some greater respect was being shown. Kaikoura, by comparison, was positively poo-free. And the money just isn't going where it's needed." More people equals more toilets. "Mate," he said, "We don't have the facilities for the number of people we are bringing in. He worked in the adventure tourism industry. I brought up the matter with a Greymouth local that evening in the pub. She was travelling in a non-self-contained van and the finger gets routinely pointed at these freedom campers, cruising the countryside, leaving a lot more than footprints.īack in 2010, Aoraki Mount Cook DoC staff - who must have been seeing more than a few spontaneous brown mountains - came up with the idea of poo pots, described as the "the human version of a doggy-bag".

Only a couple of months before my trip, a woman had been caught on film, taking her morning constitutional on a Dunedin street. Rogue poo in New Zealand is not a new issue. The best blankets were the baby wipes, which last much longer in the weather than paper. Again, little work had been put into concealing the business. It was hard to find a place to change into my wetsuit without putting foot on an excremental land mine. The beach carpark at Blaketown proved it was no fluke. We were a decent way from civilisation and it did look like the middle of nowhere. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I was a little taken aback, but assumed these must be desperate times. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests.

