At the northern tip of the South Island Farewell Spit reaches out for 28km in an arching curve that shelters Golden Bay. Colin McCahon placed it in his great painting The Promised Land as a protective symbol. A Ramsar site, it hosts a multitude of seabirds - the best known being the bar tailed Godwit.
Taken on Ashai Pentax 6 x 7, 105mm lens, Ekhtachrome ASA 100 film, F8
