Today I hitchhiked to Farewell Spit, the northern most point of the Southern Island. I didn't really inform myself of what I may come across there, and I was glad I didn't, because I loved being surprised by this impressive landscape of endless, huge, white sand dunes.
The wind and rips of the Western side push the sand towards the wind and rips of the narrow but stormy Cook Strait between the Northern and Southern Island. As a result there is 30km long peninsula of nothing but sand dunes with lakes and some vegetation. This reminded me of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia (where there's hardly water though).
#newzealand #southernisland #farewellspit
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