Transit to Dunedin 16/9/13
The last stop in our trip is Dunedin, we got ready and checked out by 10 we had a couple of stops planned and the guy at the hotel suggested another the Moeraki Boulders. We headed out on the road which from google looked like it might be quite good. We headed out towards our first stop an air museum it was a nice day sunny clear and the roads were not too bad. We made good time and the 80km to the museum went pretty quickly.
Unfortunately the museum was closed. It only opened 1pm till 3pm at this time of year. We were back on the road fairly quickly on to our next stop a vintage car museum.
Enroute we passed a double articulated truck between the first trailer and the second was dogs head. Initially it looked like some sort of clipping error or a dog had stowed away between the two trailers. As we got closer it became clear that the dog was in a box attached to the back of the truck with a hole it was sticking it’s head out of. It wasn’t clear if it could go in the box or if it was stuck head out for the journey. It was odd and we caught a picture on the time lapse.
We headed on to the vintage car museum in Geraldine a short trip off our route.
Unfortunately the museum was closed. It only opens weekends at this time of the year. We has shutdown the timelapse rig so had to empty the usb sticks before we could set off again.
We headed down towards the coast the road had been a bit boring flat ground no sight of the sea we had hoped as we swung closer to the coast the view would improve. We did get glimpses of the sea but it proved elusive. It stayed the flat fairly featureless landscape with a few glimpses of sea and the mountains in the far distance.
Our third stop was to get food we stopped at a town just up from the boulders and grabbed some supplies and some sandwiches. Refueled we headed on to our fourth stop the Moeraki boulders. These oddly spherical rocks are just lying on the beaches here Maori legend say they brought them here by canoe but they are formed naturally. The rocks are odd big 5ft tall spheres of rock just lying on the beach some cracked open like giant eggs others weathered with odd square patterns of crystalline material showing through.
The beach is covered with a black soft slippery material that is weathered with cuts and dips and feels almost soft and springy it’s called mudstone and the wave action erodes this to expose the boulders. We took a load of pictures of the spheres and the beautiful beach.
After that we headed back to the car and set off to Dunedin. It wasn’t far and we got there fairly quickly at this point the weather began turning and rain started up. We got to the hotel and checked in. The room was fairly nice and a fairly standard room rather than some of the more odd options we had on our travels. They also had a guest laundry which Byrnie made use of right away
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