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Koekoe Beach Wonders
© LynEve
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Uploaded: 06/03/18 12:38 AM GMT
Koekoe Beach Wonders
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Koekoe Beach, the home of the fabulous Moeraki Boulders. Maori legend sees them as eel baskets or calabashes.
The correct description is "Concretions created by the cementation of the Paleocene mudstone of the Moeraki Formation, from which they have been exhumed by coastal erosion."
The largest ones measure two metres across and weigh approx 7 tons. They began 60 million years ago.
There is no charge to visit them, touch them, climb inside a hollow one and just simply wonder at them. Most visitors can not resist climbing on top of one for a photo, its almost as though they tempt you up there. Even old grannies can be seen getting a helpful push from family members to get them up on one :)
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::Dunstickin
06/03/18 12:49 AM GMT
Superb landscape view of this terrific looking beach!...Like that story too.
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The wide angle is perfect for this shot Lyn, that must really be something cool to see in person. This is a superb post my friend.
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography. sandi ♪ ♫
A most lovely panorama view of this seashore. Wonderful lines to lead the eye.
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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine The Earth without art is just 'eh'.
A terrific panorama of a fascinating spot Lyn.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus
Fabulous and very interesting panorama, Lyn!
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A great panorama Lyn very well done.
Rob
Rob
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The reason why the sun sets in the evening is because it wants to see the sunrise in the morning. I rise in the morning because I want to see them both. RvdB
I really love how your pano takes us from open sea to surf to beach to hills, and although I've seen your Koekoe concretion photos before, the ones you're giving us now are very different angles. I quite often go back and reshoot scenes and objects, particularly after an equipment upgrade. So, kudos for your Koekoe. Here in North Dakota we have a similar phenomenon, called Cannonball concretions. Cannonball concretions are large spherical concretions, which resemble cannonballs, found along the Cannonball River within Morton and Sioux Counties, North Dakota, and can reach 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter. They were created by early cementation of sand and silt by calcite. This photo I submitted two years ago shows the entrance plaza of the North Dakota Heritage Center, with a ring of Cannonball concretions in the mid-ground. They typically form when a mineral precipitates and cements sediment around a nucleus, which is often organic, such as a leaf, tooth, piece of shell or fossil. However, they don't always reach back into the planet's prehistory; some of the most unusual concretion nuclei are World War II military shells, bombs, and shrapnel, which are found inside siderite concretions found in an English coastal salt marsh.
Kia Ora.
-Nik
Kia Ora.
-Nik
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