I love the different signs you see when traveling. They give you a sense of the community you are visiting and the different communication techniques used to get a message across.
This one is from the ferry terminal cafe at Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island. It reminds me of Kathy Buckworth’s humour. She is the author of the new book The BlackBerry Diaries: Adventures in Modern Motherhood and tweets regularly about funny parenting trials and tribulations.
Further down the road at the south end of Quadra Island is a handmade sign beside a mailbox that says “Trespassers will be invited for tea”. Love it.
The High Tech Barometer at Mount Washington should be required technology for any meteorologist that has trouble with accurate forecasts. The text is hard to read in the photo, so here it is:
“Watch the rock and observe the following in order to forecast the weather.
- If the rock is wet: it is raining.
- If the rock is dry: it is fine.
- If the rock is moving: it’s windy.
- If the rock is white: it is snowing.
- If the rock is covered in ice: it is cold.”
And finally, the sign for a little glass and mirror store in Coromandel Town, New Zealand. I think they’re counting on a lot of repeat business.
