Echoing the shape of the silo behind it, this conical white outhouse is made of corrugated steel. Silos are used for mass storage of grain throughout the year. The longdrop with its ventilation pipe is used by farmhands in the seasons when the silo is emptied, filled or maintained. These white structures contrast sharply with their vast surroundings of red and blue hues typical of rural Australia.
Calder Highway
Between Ouyen and Mittyack
Victoria
The collapsible toilet is a brilliant invention for those traveling to remote corners of the Australian outback. Jimmy’s Thunderbox™ folds up neatly into a flat square, light and easy to transport. When far from civilization and the need arises, simply dig a hole to place Jimmy’s Thunderbox™ over. It easily unfolds into a sturdy little toilet. Just like being in the comfort of your own home – well, almost.
Ouyen
Victoria
The world-renowned Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000) designed and oversaw the construction of these delightfully eccentric public toilets, situated on the main street of this small town. The toilets attract busloads of curious visitors. Perhaps these are the only toilets that are a tourist attraction not so much for their obvious purpose as for their unique design. Congruity is forgotten here as colourful curves meet unlikely combinations of tiles of all dimensions. The toilets are lit naturally through an odd array of coloured bottles cemented into the wall. The public toilets that put Kawakawa on the map were Hundertwasser’s final creation.
Gillies Street
Kawakawa
Bay of Islands
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In a country where sheep outnumber people ten to one, visitors to the Canterbury countryside must have no qualms whatsoever about its woolly inhabitants. Thousands roam the vast pastures where the loo stands and trespassers may find themselves in a sea of stampeding sheep. Squeamish city folk may wish to imagine themselves amidst as many cuts of prime New Zealand lamb. Unfortunately, the sheep have no consideration for the patrons of Hugh’s loo: tread gingerly on the way for the sake of your footwear.
Woodbury Road
Geraldine
South Canterbury
NEW ZEALAND
This hugely entertaining tour of toilets around the globe is a source of endless fascination and amusement. From a high-tech cubicle that rises out of the ground in central London to a rickety hut on stilts over the Caribbean, from a toilet in Bolivia carved out of a giant cactus to a solid gold WC in Hong Kong, Toilets of the World provides an irresistible journey around washrooms worldwide.