The parking attendant at Gibbs Farm is concerned - a record crowd of 3000 is expected, which means nose-to-tail traffic on the Kaipara Coast Highway and some tempers likely rising to match the mercury as drivers inch on to the 400ha property.
But he needn't have worried as once people step out of their vehicles the landscape and its striking sculptures works its charm and, hey, isn't that a giraffe over there?
Well, yes it is ... but look more closely and you'll find it's a life-size giraffe by corrugated iron artist Jeff Thomson ... but, hang on, didn't the other one just move?
Well, yes it did, because the farm is also home to some exotic animals, including two giraffes, zebra, ostriches, Highland cattle and water buffalo. The real-fake giraffe thing is a handy metaphor for the place as a whole as it's a bit like being washed up on the other side of the mirror.
It's a farm where paddocks are mowed, that has a fence listed among the artworks, a sculpture park where cattle graze around the pieces and where sheep have added a new dimension to a gargantuan steel wall by rubbing along it.