January 20th, Boulders, boulders and more boulders

Sitting on the edge of the Pacific Ocean is a small town call Moeraki NZ. As far as we know the only thing that makes it known is the Moeraki Boulders. These are almost perfectly spherical rocks that lay on the beach. Huge Rocks! Evidently they were formed eons ago by the sea. Think of how an oyster makes a pearl... It's kinda like that. They began as small pieces of bone or shell and minerals in the sea bed crystallized around them over thousands of years. The sea bed was then raised by faults and such, and the boulders have been exposed from the surrounding bluffs. As the cliffs are eroded by surf the boulders become exposed. Once of Lisa's favorite stops!