Round stones Moeraki-the answer to fans of aliens

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Круглые камни Моераки-ответ любителям пришельцев

At sunset of this day, we planned a photo shoot of mysterious boulders on the beach koekohe (Koekohe Beach. And so, the fruit of ancient giants …

Круглые камни Моераки-ответ любителям пришельцев

Круглые камни Моераки-ответ любителям пришельцев

– Moeraki boulders (Moeraki Boulders) at sunset

 

 

Moeraki Boulders (Moeraki Boulders)

 

Continues to the fifth day of our trip, Thursday. After the waterfalls Purakaunui (Purakaunui Falls) or Purakaunui and McLean (McLean Falls) we headed down route 1, through town Dunedin (Dunedin) North to Moeraki (Moeraki), a small village on the coast.

 

Круглые камни Моераки-ответ любителям пришельцев

– topographic map of the area around Moeraki (Moeraki)

Halfway from Dunedin (Dunedin) in Oamaru (Oamaru) on the coast, to be exact, the edge of the sea along the Beach koekohe (Koekohe Beach) there is an interesting landmark, natural phenomenon – a giant stone Boulders Moeraki (Moeraki Boulders), someone calls them Balls Moeraki. The biggest of them reaching 2 meters in diameter. These boulders are grey, which appeared due to shoreline erosion from black clay of the coastal cliffs. They were originally formed beneath the sea about 60 million years ago.

 

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– Moeraki boulders (Moeraki Boulders) at dawn
– Moeraki boulders (Moeraki Boulders) at sunset

Many people find it difficult to believe that nature itself, without human intervention, is able to create such perfect shape, so the human imagination gives birth to such explanations as that it is fossilized dinosaur eggs or traces of the landing of aliens in the form of fragments of ancient ships or capsules far and completely unlike earth’s civilizations.

Scientists say that the Moeraki Boulders (Moeraki Boulders) was the result of a natural radial cementing porous fine-grained sedimentary rocks (clay or sand). This process is very long. On the formation of each of the large stones left at least 4 to 5.5 million years! In science these globular masses are called concretion-septaria. Such formations are found and far from the sea, in the structure of the hills and along streams, where they fall, when the slopes of the hill erogenous.

 

Concretion — spherical (sometimes flattened as if, correctly rounded) mineral aggregate radial-rayed structure. In the center of the nodules often is a grain that served as a seed during its growth. Most often nodules are formed in porous sedimentary rocks such as Sands and clays. As opposed to secretions (geodes) grow around some center. The sizes of these entities, from millimeters to tens of centimeters, and sometimes even up to a meter or more. In external form are very diverse.

 

Dark, wet, slippery, some smooth, others rough like a turtle shell, large and self-sufficient. Some of the stones cracked like a ripe watermelon, revealing a cavity inside its colorful grainy womb.

 

Satriani called nodules in sedimentary rocks containing radially oriented cracks extending to the center of the nodules. In many septarian is also connected to radial tangential cracks, all together they form a single internal cavity. These cracks are often mineralized, creating a cloisonne figure, which septaria got its name ( from lat. “sерtum” – partition). Mineralization in cavities of cracks in septarian their walls are covered by crystalline crusts of different minerals.

 

I prefer the ancient Maori legend that explains the origin of the boulders is much easier is the remains of a basket (te kai hinaki) for catching eels, local pumpkin and sweet potato Kumara who came ashore after a shipwreck, a large sailing canoe Arai-Te-Uru (Arai-te-uru), once went in search of the precious stone of Te Wai Pounamu (Te Wai Pounamu).

 

Круглые камни Моераки-ответ любителям пришельцев

– Dawn on the beach koekohe (Koekohe Beach, Moeraki (Moeraki)

South Island (South Island) in addition to the well-known names in Aotearoa (Aotearoa) – the land of the long white cloud, which applies to the whole of New Zealand, is often called Te Vai Pounamu (Te Wai Pounamu) – Water Green Stone (Water Jade, Water Jade) or Stone of Maui (Te Waka a Maui). The name of the island was because this island was mined jade. But previously it was Te wahi Pounamu (Te Wāhi Pounamu) – the Place of Green Stone. The word Vahi (Wahi) , a Place somehow transformed into the Wai (Wai) .

The legend of the shipwreck of the large sailing canoe Arai-Te-Uru (Arai-te-uru) still talks about the origin of the names of the nearby hills. They are named after crew members surviving after a shipwreck, but with the dawn prevratilsya in stone.

 

Круглые камни Моераки-ответ любителям пришельцев

– Dawn on the beach koekohe (Koekohe Beach, Moeraki (Moeraki)

When Waka-canoe Arai-Te-Uru (Arai-te-uru) reached the place Matakaea (shag point/Shag Point), three waves struck with great force and knocked Waka-canoe, and then broke his cross-shot waves. Tie Hippo (Hipo) stubbornly remained on Vaca and was sitting right on the stern are the remains of the Waka-canoe became the reef, referred to now as the Dangerous Reef. Waves all travelling on the legendary Waka-canoe turned to stone (the hills), and they are now known under the title: Pukhovichi (Pukehiwitahi) or bunches of Hiwi Tahi (Tahi Puki Hiwi) – the one-armed captain of the legendary Arai-Te-Uru (Arai-te-uru), but more know the name of this hill as Pukeiti (Pukeviti); Puketapu (Puketapu) a woman sailing in a canoe, the nga Tamariki Hakura (Nga Tamariki Hekura) – Gemini Hekura, and Potiki (Poutaiki)

Kaitangata (Kaitangata) was an artist aboard the Arai-Te-Uru (Arai-te-uru) , and he traveled with his paints and instrumental. When the sun rose, he became a hill where you can see the red ochre. A city that is not far away, also known as Kaitangata (Kaitangata), it is to the South Dandina (Dunedin) near the town of Taupo (Balclutha).

We got to the beach koekohe (Koekohe Beach at high tide, and passed it almost to the end, found that return back on the beach dry-shod difficult. Waiting for the outgoing waves I ran from hills to hills and noticed a ladder leading on the steep slope. I decided to see where the path leads from the stairs and it was informative.

An abandoned trail was dvol Bank, its observation deck has long overgrown with trees and little visible, but along props still standing information boards, on which something can be read.

 

Круглые камни Моераки-ответ любителям пришельцев

– an information Board on the trail along the beach koekohe (Koekohe Beach), telling about the formation of the Moeraki Boulders (Moeraki Boulders) – clickable

Due to the fact that the gift shop is blocking the start of the trail, it is hidden from the great mass of tourists posishayushih magnificent creation of nature Moeraki Boulders or Boulders Moeraki (Moeraki Boulders), which still remains a mystery.

 

Круглые камни Моераки-ответ любителям пришельцев

– a sign at the start of the trail

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