Boulders
Winya_wynah
Fri 22 Jan 2010 04:31
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Back to the coast and more fabulous things,
the Moeraki Boulders a 'must stop' option.
 These spherical rocks are formed in the mud stone
when a nucleus starts to solidify and 'grows' a rock! Later when the mud
cliffs are worn away by sea and wind the boulders are exposed and stand out on
the beach. These are also broken down eventually and inside is a
more honeycomb like rock, this makes some hollow but large enough to hide
in.
 Further along the coast we stopped to look in
an Art Gallery, chatting to the owner we learned there was a huge boulder on the
beach below the gallery, fortunately it was low tide still so we ventured
down the rickety steps and path to this monster.
 Climbing up was tricky, but here No1
apparently gets a bunk-up from the fur seal behind.
 Actually we didn't take any notice of the seal
until taking another photo the Skipper inadvertantly stood between seal and
the water...... Big seals can move quite quickly, making much
noise...... Moving faster than normally possible Skipper ran in many
directions at once away from seal, back to steps, jumping over incoming waves
and avoiding a second seal disturbed by the chaos. No1 almost fell off the
boulder she was laughing so hard!
Restoring some calm to the
situation a (smug) yoga pose in a space ship boulder
 Taking the coast road advised by the guy in the
gallery we travelled through several small towns, spurred on by our visit with
Bruce a horse trainer, we stopped to see the
saturday afternoon harness racing. The whole town (except the
staff in the excellent bakers) seemed to be there. We watched trotters and
pacers while the sun came out for a brief visit.
 The coastline here has high rocky cliffs and deep
sandy bays equally dramatic and along with the vegetation providing rest
and protection for seals and penguins.
  Had to get this T-shirt, ''Never let an
adventure pass you by'' It's official. |