(1/3) Farewell Spit/ Onetahua. Free access limited to initial 4km of coast to protect birds; paid tours go further into nature reserve. Waders eat mollusks, crustaceans & worms in the sand flats. Black swan (📷1) & SI pied oystercatcher (📷2). Argonauta nodosus—fragile octopus eggcase, on bed of seagrass—largest meadow in NZ here (📷3). Translucent shell of horse mussel (📷4).

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