Farewell Spit Eco Tours Blog

One of the local school bus drivers and local school caretaker Bill Climo found a Giant Petrel wandering on the roadside at Puponga near the beginning of Farewell Spit recently.

Luckily our office in the main street of Collingwood is a Petrel station so he dropped in to show us the big bird on his way to the home of one of our local ornithologists who takes in wounded or un-well birds. Sadly this one didn’t make it and an autopsy was held and it was discovered that it had a virus in it’s gut.

We took their photo and put it on the website here.

Unfortunately we were too far away to revive it with our Petrel pump.

The Garden Gnomes from around the world and even Nelson are planning to converge on Collingwood near Farewell Spit in Golden Bay for the second "A Gnome away from Home weekend" in the last weekend of August.

Have a look at last year’s movie below.

For the last several days Whale spouts have been seen near Cape Farewell at the beginning of Farewell Spit.

Farewell Spit Eco Tours guides and clients have had a grandstand view from the clifftops and a pod of 4 were seen yesterday, we think they are Humpback Whales. They migrate at this time of year and it is a rare treat to have them hanging around our part of the world. Have a look here at one of the spouts just beyond a boiling school of fish.