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| Sea Lion |
We call in to check out any beach or wetland or bush block as we drive north so a short distance can take all day. It's been worth it though because we've seen some wonderful landscapes and our bird list is growing every day.
At Waikouaiti beach we saw a black rock about a kilometre along the sandy beach but then the rock lifted its head! So we walked along to check it out but kept our distance - Sea Lions can be dangerous. Another bonus on the walk was seeing Gannets diving into the surf only a few metres off shore. (Unfortunately it wasn't until I looked at a map later that I saw that there is a Lagoon Walkway in the town. Oops. Missed that.)
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| Australasian Gannet |
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| Gannets loafing on the water. |
Then we moved north to see some more blobs on the beach, this time they were rocks. The
Moeraki Boulders are spectacular and geologically very interesting because they were formed underwater in marine mud.
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| Moeraki Boulders |
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| Tourists posing. |
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