Omaru and Moeraki Boulders

On Wednesday in the morning we headed up to Palmerston (was just a quick break), Omaru and Moeraki. It took approximately 1.5 hours to drive up there.

For those you know New Zealand is a very young country (Dunedin ws first setteled in 1848) and they don't have a big long history but in Omaru are a lot of historical buildings... Most of them are from the victorian epoche and they are all made out of the famous Omaru stone. I think it's like the sand stone and probaly a similar one as the Cologne Cathedral is made out of. It just isn't as old (means not black).

The following weekend there will be an victorian festival which is one's a year when the people dress up in old costumes and ave parades and stuff..

After a quick look at a steam punk art thing (I really don't know how to call it but you'll see on the photos) we went into a gift shop where they had a „one wheel bike“ and it was really funny to try to ride on it. But all the small japanese girls had too short legs to reach the pedals :)

After Omaru we drove to the Moeraki bolders. That are some big round stones that are just in the sea and on the beach. Some of them look a little bit like dinosour eggs and others look like turtles. It really interesting because they are actually a mutant nucleous from a shell fish that developed in the sand and finally broke out of it. Sounds weird but when our really nice guide Mark explained it to me it made a lot of sence.

There were some rocks that were broken or fallen apart so you could sit in them, the only difficluty was that they were in the water. Some of the girls got a bit wet.

It was very funny and also fascinating if you thought about how the rocks got there.

We also saw one seal and it was so cool and cute. <3

I sometimes write this but that's because I'm still not used to the fact that they live here at the beach (more on the cliffs and rocks). So every time I see one it's amazing and an other great experience, because in Germany, espcially in Cologne it's not very common to find a seal just at the beach.