Broken Moeraki Boulder
Koekohe Beach, Moeraki, New Zealand
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April 15, 2026 – This particular boulder fell from the cliff behind it several years ago and broke upon impact. It is about 5 ft. in diameter.
The Moeraki Boulders (officially Moeraki Boulders / Kaihinaki) are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve. These boulders are grey-coloured septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone and bedrock enclosing them and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.
The most striking aspect of the boulders is their unusually large size and spherical shape, with a distinct bimodal size distribution. Approximately one-third of the boulders range in size from about 0.5 to 1.0 metre (1.6 to 3.3 ft) in diameter, the other two-thirds from 1.5 to 2.2 metres (4.9 to 7.2 ft). Most are spherical or almost spherical, but a small proportion are slightly elongated parallel to the bedding plane of the mudstone that once enclosed them.
The original full sized photo is derived rom 6536 individual focus bracketed/stacked images yielding 157 focus stacked images in a 6 row x 26 column array. I shoot this using my Canon R5 Mark 2, RF 100-400mm zoon lens at 400mm lens, f/11, 1/13th sec., ISO 100.
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