Cape Farewell
Cape Farewell is the northern tip of the South Island. Farewell Spit is a sand bar stretching 22km west of the Cape, deposited by the prevailing west coast currents. To the east of the
Cape and south of the Spit there is an extensive shallow sandy bay, while the west side of the spit is wild and windy.
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Whale skeleton
Looking south to Golden Bay over sand flats
Tracy with a dead shark
Whale carcasses from a beaching
After walking out on the leeward side of the spit...
we climbed into the dunes
The (very) windward side of the spit
Windblown bushes
Fossils
The spit
South over Golden Bay
The spit ahead with Golden Bay to the right
Pictures around Cape Farewell
A traffic jam around these parts
© Tim Cooke 2008
