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Crayfish caravan, Kaikōura

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Crayfish caravan, Kaikōura

Kaikōura translates as ‘rock lobster (or crayfish) meal’ and anyone driving along the highway just south of Kaikōura township, on the east coast of the South Island, can stop at this caravan and purchase their own meal of freshly cooked rock lobsters.

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Niel Bruce and Alison MacDiarmid, Crabs, rock lobsters and other crustaceans – Rock lobster fishing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8240/crayfish-caravan-kaikoura (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Niel Bruce and Alison MacDiarmid, published 2 March 2009.