Visit these when the tide is out... Trust us :P
Trip Start
Feb 28, 2009
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26
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Trip End
Apr 12, 2009
Where I stayed
YHA Lake Tekapo
Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
Friday, April 10, 2009
We are not fully sure what the actual beach there is called, but a nearby town is called Moeraki and what makes this beach is so unique are 'The Moeraki Boulders'. Now we didn't really know what to expect here, but since it was on our route we figured we'd stop and have a look anyway :).
The reason these boulders are so special is that they are almost perfectly spherical. And as un-interesting as that might sound at first glance, once we saw them we were quite puzzled and impressed by them. Yes, they are just large rocks, but the weirdness of the whole scene... Several large boulders that look like they could have been God's marbles just lying on the beach in the surf... It is definitely not a common sight.
We tried to take a few pictures of them to share with you all, but sadly enough the sun was close to setting so the conditions weren't optimal... Plus we had to keep dashing back to the edge as the tide was coming in hard and fast and in BIG waves :D.
The beach only had about 30 centimeters of dry sand left where everyone else was huddling whenever a new wave was incoming. So we ended up running back and forth inbetween waves for some pictures and to see these weird boulders up close. We even saw a broken boulder further down the beach that looked like it had exploded sometime in the past. It clearly showed that the centre had been hollow and at some point the pressure inside had been too great and it just blew up there on the beach.
Luckily we only had to dodge incoming waves and not flying rocks this time round though :P
Comments
Moeraki
Dat zijn mooie gladde bobbels, lijkt me inderdaad lastig te fotograferen als je iedere keer moet rennen.
God
so GOd has lost his marbles then - I always had my suspicions :P
25 !
thats only five entries from 30 !! are you SURE you can't squeeze out five more ? :D
The things below and beyond...
Something that might be a shoggoth pretending to be a seal (previous entry), sinister-looking penguins, giant stone eggs, one of them already hatched...
Are you sure you were still in New Zealand? The pictures would be consistent with the Mountains of Madness after a bit of erosion and global warming.
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On a more serious note, very interesting - and indeed at times slightly eerie - scenery. You really covered quite a nice distance on that holiday... congratulations for not tiring yourself out a third of the way in :)
Re: The things below and beyond...
We know ourselves rather well ;)
To many people our pace this holiday would have probably been infuriatingly slow :D
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congratulations for not tiring yourself out a third of the way in :)