Stop! Won't you?

It's like World War 3 at the airport at the moment. There's soldiers everywhere, and they've built a lookout thingy that's filled with several tonnes of sand! (you can see it just to the right of the stop sign, in the distance, behind the sand bags. There's a guy that sits in there with a machine gun at the ready. See him here).

It's all part of the huge military exercise (Exercise Southern Katipo 13) taking place in South Canterbury until the end of November. It's the biggest of it's kind in 20 years, apparently.

Such fun!