DJ Carl Cox on Nin’s Bin seafood caravan, New Zealand

By a lonely beach on the South Island’s east coast, this retro caravan sells the freshest crayfish – ready to be gulped down with chips and lungfuls of sea air
  
  

Nins Bin crayfish shack.
Seafood … and eat it. Nins Bin crayfish shack. Photograph: Alamy

I ride motorcyles and tour all over the place – I love hitting the road with a few friends. One of my favourite places to ride is through the breathtaking scenery of New Zealand’s South Island. One journey I’ve done every year for seven years is taking the ferry from Wellington to Picton and then the amazing ride down to Queenstown, a very cool place for extreme sports like bungee jumping.

On the east coast, a bit before Kaikoura, you come to this blue-and-white 1970s caravan by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. The first time I saw it I was curious, so went to check out what it was – and what a find! It is Nin’s Bins, and sells crayfish with lemon and chips – you can get mussels and whitebait too – but crayfish is the thing. You couldn’t get it any fresher and the prices are very reasonable. It’s not upscale at all: you sit on rickety benches or on the beach and take in the sea air. Along the coast you see these moving rocks – then realise they’re seals! I do a pilgrimage here every year. It’s such a cool place.
facebook.com/ninsbin. Carl Cox will perform at Snowbombing Festival (snowbombing.com) in Mayrhofen Austria, 6-11 April

 

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