New Zealand Adventure: Farewell Spit

I know the title sounds weird but this is not some kind of obscure Maori ritual or weird New Zealand habit.

Farewell Spit is in fact the northernmost tip of New Zealands south island.

Here you can see it on a clear picture from a Nasa Satelite

the whole of the sandbank sticking out from the mainland is about 27 km long and one can only access the first 4 as public domain. The rest is a protected natural reserve due to the huge amount of birds that live there in this unique ecosystem. The whole part south of the sandbank comes above water with the low tide and covers back up with high tide which makes it really special and a home for a lot of wading birds.

Anyway, we arrived there close to the evening and it was extremely windy (but that is apparently normal) The beach was one of the nicest ones I have seen in a long time

not like the palmbeach kind but with very find gray-golden sand almost like dust and the wind gave it amazing effects and the dunes looked picture perfect.

So if you are in the neighbourhood do not skip on this, the beach is amazing and the sunset was even better, just be prepared for the wind, it cuts through everything and brings a lot of sand

I had the misfortune of dropping my camera in the sand and was really fearful of having ruined the lens. Luckily i was able to buy a can of compressed air 2 days later and managed to blow out that sand and get the lens going again.

the beach look awsome...nice..enjoy your trip..

thanks, sadly we are already home now after a month of traveling but I am reliving it all through these pictures and posts

Dude I remember so much this place I had real fun ! Walking 4h on the white sand dunes from one side to the other as far as I could (last part is a protected reserve)
I'm sure you loved it !

yea, it was absolutely amazing, and we went kinda late in the day so we really had the beach all to ourselves... it was magical

So cool :) ! Don't forget Wharariki beach ! You'll see colony of seals at your feet ! Magic

we saw and smelled a huge colony (will be in the next post)

Awesome looking forward!

Beautiful! New Zealand has amazing beaches, I'll make sure to visit this one next time I'm travelling there. Thanks for sharing.

you are very welcome, make sure you do visit, its well worth it

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