Our neighbours in New Zealand truly are a wild bunch, and they’re constantly gifting us with just great news stories. Today in Kiwi gold is this tale of a group of New Year’s Eve revellers who had one wish to ring in 2018: getting shitfaced while taking in a water view. That is the dream, after all.
But pesky booze bans in the coastal town of Coromandel, situated in New Zealand’s North Island, meant that in order to enjoy a few frosties near the water local punters had to get creative.
An unnamed onlooker told Stuff that a small group headed out into the Tairua Estuary at low tide on Sunday arvo, and set about making an island out of sand.
After they were done, the publication reports that they installed a “wooden picnic table and chilly bin”, which is obviously some cute-as Kiwi word for an esky.
Then when the tide came in, the partiers had their very own island on which to enjoy some well-deserved bevvies, telling onlookers that they were safe from the booze ban because they resided in “international waters”. Check out their handiwork below.
Inspector John Kelly, a local police official, told Stuff that law enforcement didn’t know about the Booze Island, but if they did they wouldn’t have given a shit. “That’s creative thinking,” Kelly told the publication. “If I had known that I probably would have joined them.”
