Massive stone boulders sit on a beach looking like eggs from a monster sized sea turtle.
Really big egg rocks
The view from above
These Moeraki Boulders are on the beach near the small village of Moeraki, half an hour south of Oamaru. The coastline stretches on in either direction with these boulders amassed in one stringy clump almost in the middle of the curved shoreline. These guys can be anywhere from a foot in diameter to about 6 feet wide. The boulders are formed inside of the cliffs and as the cliffs erode away these massive boulders pop out and land on the beach below.
A freshly hatched boulder.
As time goes by, with wind and waves and sun all working on these boulders, they split into chunks and break down.
The bottom of the egg, hard boiled I should think.
Boulders - shoulder to shoulder
Lone Boulder facing the Sea
1 comment:
It's like the march of the penguins, but with rocks! So epic!
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