Farewell Spit, New Zealand Travel Blogs

Dunes

A travel blog entry by nomadic-brands

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... : Sunny with a slight breeze We left Abel Tasman after a brief break to recover from the exertions of our walk, and arrived at Farewell Spit a few hours later. As the name suggests, Farewell Spit is a spit of sand that extends over 30km into the sea off ...

Far North South Island

A travel blog entry by alinmattrtw2005

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... in all of New Zealand - we did a nice walk around them and the headed up towards Puponga Farm Park. Puponga is home to Farewell Spit - this spit is huge and all along the coast you just see this golden length of sand jutting out into the water. You can ...

The Claw

A travel blog entry by thelees

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The highlight of Golden Bay for us was undoubtedly visiting the Farewell Spit, a 22.5km long and 1.5km wide (at its base) strip of sand dune. It's at the top of the South Island and reaches out like a claw towards the North Island. Apparently it's a ...

Heaps of sheeps

A travel blog entry by paulandhannah

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... neither of us felt like rushing so had a leisurely breakfast and decided to leave Abel Tasman for tomorrow and drive up to Farewell Spit instead. We stopped a few times along the way... Fresh water springs – a brilliantly clear set of lakes ...

Road Trip 3: Farewell Spit

A travel blog entry by em_n_abs

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Top of the South Island

A travel blog entry by ness_knibbs

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... /12/05 120 whales beached themselves near the farwell cape and 700 volunteers turned up overnight and managed to save 100 of them!! The farewell spit tour took us right up on the spit of sand created by the seas currents bringing sand up from the southern ...

Farewell Spit

A travel blog entry by jag

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... with the calm low tide water on the other side that provides santuary for birds migrating from around the world. After Farewell Spit I continued back past collingwood and onto 'Pu Pu' Springs a mass of water that bursts up from underground vents ...

Project 330, Week 17

A travel blog entry by operationwalrus

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... up to the extreme North of the South Island, visiting Golden Bay. This was taken at a view point at a place called Farewell Spit, a huge natural bird sanctuary which juts out from the mainland. Also, an animal skeleton in the background for some ...

Finally...Lovely, Sunny Weather And A Beach Or Two

A travel blog entry by hayleyandlorna

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We have found the perfect hostel. Its called the Inlet and its out on the road towards Farewell Spit. Just keep going until you are about 2kms North of Collingwood. Absolutely fantastic.It was recommended to us by someone we met at the hostel in Hamner ...

Farewell Spit

A travel blog entry by marcmsm

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... up for that.. Anyway Takaka is nice though .. so from here i drove on to Collingwood and then out to cape farewell and the Farewell spit which is the northern most part of the south island and the bloddy windiest too.. Drove around on a load of gravel ...

Spit on me, Dickie....

A travel blog entry by bosco

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... , believe me, unless you fancy a mouthful of sand. From here, we took a walk up to Farewell Point before heading down to the Farewell Spit itself which is a 25km sandbar that juts out east from the very top of the South Island. Took a really nice stroll a ...

So long Bob Carolgee's dog-puppet

A travel blog entry by alasdairnicola

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... were top of our list for sites to visit when we were planning our trip. The realisation of a dream. What can I say about Farewell Spit that you probably haven't heard a million times before? Actually, we didn't learn very much about it while we were ...

Farewell Spit

A travel blog entry by kuk

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... in Motueka ist langweilig und meine Zeltgebuehren kann ich auch woanders bezahlen. So steuerte ich am Donnerstag ( 02.02.) Richtung Farewell Spit an, zum noerdlichsten Punkt auf der Suedinsel. Das 1. Tagesziel meiner Tour war Takaka. Eine kleine Stadt ...

The birds

A travel blog entry by kevandrach

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We left Motueka and headed north along the only road to Farewell Spit, we would pass Abel Tasman NP but planned to visit there on our way back. We passed a sign to Pupu Springs (Te Waikoropupu Springs - to give it its full name) and had read about these, ...

Seal slides

A travel blog entry by tjwanderer

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... swans were waiting for the tide to go out, being buffeted by strong easterly winds and bobbing up and down in the waves. Farewell Spit a a desolate dune area covered on the eastern side by a multitude of wading birds, gulls, herons, swans and mallards - ...

Our night on Farewell Spit

A travel blog entry by leox

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We thought, that we should share our little adventure with you all back home, since you seemed rather worried about us.... You see, the thing was, we heard that Leonie is leaving South Island soon and going to take us on an adventure round the North for ...

The top of south island

A travel blog entry by alexlindstrom

Had a swim at westport on the way north. Farewell spit reminds me a bit of spurn point. A really quiet place with lots of birds and black swans but no lighthouse. We got fish and chips (again) and found somewhere to camp not far from the tip of south ...

Farewell Spit

A travel blog entry by newzealandsmit

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We stayed 2 nights at a little old miner's house and hiked through sheep hills and valleys to get to the spit and local beaches. The very stong winds made it difficult to walk. Mary and I made sails with their jackets. A bull-like cow charged ...

The Windy Day

A travel blog entry by elspeth

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... and took a half-hour detour on gravel road. Kept saying, I think we took a wrong turn. Signs to Heaphy's track and none for Farewell Spit should have been the big clue, but we didn't turn back until we reached a giant and by that I mean gigantic lake in ...

Golden Bay In a Day

A travel blog entry by curtis.melissa

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... a little cave. I didn’t know seals could cough, but they can:) We finally left that beautiful beach and headed to the famous Farewell Spit, a big loooong sand spit stretching out into the ocean at the top of Golden Bay. (If you look really hard at ...

Jan 04, 2010

A travel blog entry by psoares

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Hallo Suedinsel

A travel blog entry by micha-unterwegs

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... gehabt mit wirklich schoener Aussicht in die Marlborough Sounds. Ab Nelson reiste ich getrennt von meiner ersten Reisepartnerin, eine gute Entscheidung! Fuer mich gings daraufhin in die Golden Bay & zum Farewell Spit, inklusive Yoga mit ...

Feb 19, 2011

A travel blog entry by tripnewzealand

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A Taste of Ufly Extreme and Horse Trek

A travel blog entry by rich_kate_2011

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... have much of a voice left which was quite amusing! After we had watched them take off, we made our way to the Golden Bay and Farewell Spit to do some horse trekking. We arrived at around two, greeted by Gale the owner, she asked us what were would like to ...

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Dunes

Far North South Island

The Claw

Heaps of sheeps

Road Trip 3: Farewell Spit

Top of the South Island

Farewell Spit

Project 330, Week 17

Finally...Lovely, Sunny Weather And A Beach Or Two

Farewell Spit

Spit on me, Dickie....

So long Bob Carolgee's dog-puppet

Farewell Spit

The birds

Seal slides

Our night on Farewell Spit

The top of south island

Farewell Spit

The Windy Day

Golden Bay In a Day

Jan 04, 2010

Hallo Suedinsel

Feb 19, 2011

A Taste of Ufly Extreme and Horse Trek