MOERAKI BOULDERS

Hi and Happy Independence everyone especially to all Malaysian. I’m very happy yet proud that our country had independent about 58 years!

Enormous balls along the beach. Photo by Pinterest

Back to our topic, have you ever heard about Moeraki Boulders? Yes? No? I am sure many of you would say no. hehe

Moeraki Boulders is names that refer to the rocks, enormous of rocks in Koekohe beach in New Zealand. People would only know NZ is a kiwi country, but here I tell you the hidden parts of Nz :)

 There are more than 200 of balls were found and the diameter of each one of the ball is like 0.5 to 3 meter. 

The most surprisingly, there are about 15 tan of each of the ball. 

How big and heavy it is!

The most questionable to the people is, most of the balls are in fully sphere, maybe there are some of them are not, but most of it, yes. 

Some of the balls are covered with mud and already split as time passes by.
Photo by Kuriositas

This formation of the balls are part of the natural process unlike in Delta Dequis that were made by humans.

You can click to this page to know about Delta Dequis in Costa Rica. :)

According to the researcher, Boles Junior, C.A Landis and 

P. Dales and the New Zealand Geology Academy, the balls as calcite concretions formed about 65 million years ago. Crystallization of calcium and carbonates around charged particles gradually formed the boulders in a pearl-like process that took as long as four million years. The soft mudstone containing the boulders was raised from the seabed around 15 million years ago.

There are myths of the balls. According to the Maori legend, all the balls were the eggs of water dragon that has drifted by the waves. Other than that, the balls are gourds washed ashore from the great voyaging canoe Araiteuru when it was wrecked upon landfall in New Zealand hundreds of years ago.

So are you interested to see in your eyes the gigantic balls? Enjoy reading and till we meet again :)

Bye