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| On the way to Dunedin you come to Moeraki, where there are huge boulders just lying on the beach |
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| They're not just rocks, washed downriver and rounded, as I thought |
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| They're made when sediments under mud have the porus parts fills in by minerals, which leach (diffuse) in, slowly over millions of years. It starts very small, growing to marble size and ones like this take around 4-5 million years to develop! The cracks here are when the boulder cracks and dolomite or calcium fills in and hardens. |
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| As coastal erosion continues, they drop out of the mud, onto the beach |
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| Further inland near our camping spot, we went on a tramp up a hillside in a gorge, where we could see out to sea |
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| We sat up on an exposed rock enjoying the sun and the view |
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| The next day we went to Dunedin, which is proud to have Scottish heritage, or so they tell us |
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| The train station, built in 1906, has a Flemish Rennaissance design |
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| Both inside and out |
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| Though obviously Victorian in parts |
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| Made from 2 type of local stone |
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| Mmm! |
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| The courthouse looks very impressive too |
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| With good detail... |
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| A lot of the settlers in the area, arrived from Portsmouth and Edinburgh |
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| St Paul's Cathedral |
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| Robert Burns, the poet is celebrated here. His nephew was one of the first settlers here, and a reverend |
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| Town Hall in the Octagonal Centre |
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| Local theatre |
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| The Presbytarian First Church, which looked a bit like a rocket from some angles.. |
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| Lots of bits pointing upwards.. did no one tell them He is all around, not just up there...... |
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| And the local hall named after Mr Burns (not Montgomery) |
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| Inside the First Church |
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| Dunedin, as seen from the Otago Peninsula, opposite |
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