On to the North Island ⛴️

We headed down from Perry Saddle Hut on the Heaphy Track in good time so by 2:30pm we were sat in the glorious sunshine next to the water at Collingwood Holiday Park. When I say sat in the sun, I had the bed set up in the van with the doors open enjoying a well deserved lie down. The next morning the sun continued and we caught a glorious sunrise over the sea. We were not far from Farewell Spit, the most northern point of the South Island, if you look at on Google maps it looks like a kiwi beak. You can only walk a bit of it but it's a loop going along one side, up over the dunes, and then back along the other. We set of in the sunshine and then headed up onto the dunes, all very pleasant. All along the walk we saw loads of whale bones, apparently the deep ocean on one side and shallow estuary often confuses whales who then get stranded leading to bones scattered all over. As we reached the other side it was obvious we'd been extremely sheltered so far, it was blowing a gale...