red deer, The Bushman's Centre

a roadside cafe on the West Coast (halfway between Hokitika and Franz Josef), famous for the possum pies it sells. Even nanoboy has heard of it.

It is a tumbledown dirty sort of place that revels in introduced pests and is very anti-DoC so I have a hard job stomaching stopping there. Unfortunately all the tour buses stop there so often the only connection a lot of travellers hear with regards to DoC is a very negative one from this scummy hovel.

Inside, apart for the cafe and shop, is a tiny museum which holds brush-tailed possums in little cages (including a white one apparently, but I refuse to pay any money to this place to see it) and outside next to the car park are four paddocks holding Himalayan tahr, red deer, red-necked wallabies and feral goats.

http://www.pukekura.co.nz/bushmans_centre/museum.htm

some other animals

there used to be a giant sandfly hanging outside but it is gone now (this photo I took in 2007).

(Sandflies are annoying biting blackflies prevalent on the West Coast).

I remember that fly from when I was last in NZ in 2000.
I did not stop, just remember thinking it was a bit strange. I presume it was that one as I doubt there are any to mix up with it.