Windy Farewell

Paddy Gillooly owns a tourism company in New Zealand which takes visitors by jeep or all-terrain bus to the tip of the South Island’s Farewell Spit, one of only two companies permitted the sandy, and windy trip. Some days it’s like looking through a “curtain of sand” says Paddy. “Only a mechanic could do this job,” he says. That’s because his buses, which are continuously deluged by sand, salt water and mud, need constant care. Farewell Spit is a protected area and still growing and changing, mostly due to those strong winds.


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