Dawn at the Moeraki Boulders
Koekohe Beach, Moeraki, New Zealand
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April 16, 2026 – We had arrived in this area the evening before. Knowing that low tide, when the boulders are mostly out of the water, would occur shortly after sunrise we got up well before sunrise and drove to the parking area that was close to the beach. I hiked down the beach to this spot that my wife Jean I had scouted out the previous evening. I was planning to shoot a set of images just as the sun peeked over the horizon. Some 10 minutes before sunrise the light was so beautiful, I couldn’t resist shooting a set of images. When we got home the the USA and I started processing my images I felt that this image was by far the better of the shoots I did that morning.
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 original full sized photo is derived rom 136 individual focus bracketed/stacked images. I shoot this using my Canon R5 Mark 2, RF 100-400mm zoon lens at 100mm lens, f/11, 1/60th sec., ISO 400.
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