Farewell Spit is a narrow, curved sandbank on the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island, near Golden Bay. It is one of New Zealand's most famous and remote destinations for nature lovers, birdwatchers, and landscape photographers.
Curio Bay is of international importance for its fossilized forest, which dates back to the Jurassic period. The tree fossils on display here are around 170 million years old. The forest was alive when New Zealand was part of Gondwanaland.