Te Anau to Milford Sounds

I thought I had uploaded these photos but I can't find them (anymore) so here they are again.

A little fishing village on the coast south of Oamaru has become famous for a geological wonder on its windswept sands.
Moeraki has a long history of Maori occupation, which is represented in the town today by the Kotahitanga Maori Church and a pa site nearby. This small seaport town was the first European settlement in North Otago. Behind the town a road leads to the lighthouse where you can find a yellow-eyed penguin sanctuary and a seal colony. There are other walks of ecological interest around the coast, and through the Trotter’s Gorge native forest. South of Moeraki is the town of Palmerston, where you can follow an historical scenic route to Central Otago.

Moeraki makes a fascinating stopover point, both for the dramatic coastal scenery and the curious geological phenomenon on the beaches.
http://www.newzealandnz.co.nz/destinations/moeraki.html

These are photos that I have taken but can't remember when:)

Various photos taken on our holiday to New Zealands south island. A lot of them I shot while my hubby was driving and refinded them in PSP 9.

A little fishing village on the coast south of Oamaru has become famous for a geological wonder on its windswept sands.

The Moeraki Boulders are huge spherical stones that are scattered over the sandy beaches, but they are not like ordinary round boulders that have been shaped by rivers and pounding seas. These boulders are classed as septarian concretions, and were formed in ancient sea floor sediments. They were created by a process similar to the formation of oyster pearls, where layers of material cover a central nucleus or core. For the oyster, this core is an irritating grain of sand. For the boulders, it was a fossil shell, bone fragment, or piece of wood. Lime minerals in the sea accumulated on the core over time, and the concretion grew into perfectly spherical shapes up to three metres in diameter.

The way to Marlborough Sounds to Picton

The sunset taken on the Aratere while crossing the Cook Strait from Picton to Wellington