Moeraki Boulders

by libbynewzealandblog

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Nothing is better than a roadtrip with good people, an epic camp site, and experiencing and seeing new things. Throw is some crazy big rock boulders in the ocean, well that just takes the cake. This weekend we set out for the East Coast on the South Island for a 24 hour road trip and judging on how much we did it almost felt like a whole week away, which is a very refreshing way to head into the next work week!

The Moeraki Boulders are a group of very large spherical “stones” on Koekohe Beach near Moeraki on New Zealand’s Otago coast. These boulders are actually concretions that have been exposed through shoreline erosion from coastal cliffs that back the beach. They originally formed in ancient sea floor sediments around 60 million years ago. They were amazing- and being a bit daring and adventurous we decided to get fully wet in the ocean and climb up!

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