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| Moeraki Boulders |
On a brief trip away from home I had the opportunity to visit the Moeraki Boulders. They are a popular tourist stop situated on the Otago coast between Dunedin and Oamaru. (Wiki article) The boulders are huge rounded stones that have come from the sandstone cliff. I have long been familiar with photos of the boulders, but I had not guessed the variety of their surfaces or the interesting formations revealed in the broken ones. Apparently in the days before they were protected curious people blasted them.
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| Tourists exploring the boulders |
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| Some are strangely textured |
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| A shattered boulder |
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| A boulder still emerging from the sandstone cliff |
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| Fragments scattered on the beach. The grey and rust area top right is the reef |
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