Description: Some 60 million years ago, the concretions we know as the Moeraki boulders started forming on the ocean floor. Centuries of coastline erosion have revealed a spectacular view of these curiously large spherical boulders.
Local Maori legends explained the boulders as the remains of eel baskets, calabashes, and kumara washed ashore from the wreck of an Arai-te-uru, a large sailing canoe. This legend tells of the rocky shoals that extend seaward from Shag Point as being the petrified hull of this wreck and a nearby rocky promontory as being the body of the canoe's captain.
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Keywords: Koekohe Beach, Landscape, Moeraki, Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand, Novy Zeland, Otago, beach, nature, ocean, Arai-te-uru, Araiteuru
Exif: Exposure: 1/400, Aperture: 10.0, ISO: 100
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