{"id":7543,"date":"2020-04-13T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T06:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydnature.nz\/?post_type=phort_post&#038;p=7543"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:17:03","slug":"moeraki-boulders","status":"publish","type":"phort_post","link":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/portfolio\/moeraki-boulders\/","title":{"rendered":"MOERAKI BOULDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The Moeraki Boulders are a group of large spherical \u201cstones\u201d on Koekohe Beach near Moeraki on New Zealand\u2019s Otago coast. These boulders are actually concretions that have been exposed through shoreline erosion from coastal cliffs. Even today, there are still boulders remaining in the mudstone that will, eventually, fall on to the beach as they come lose due to erosion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The boulders are one of the most fascinating and popular attractions on the South Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">They originally started forming in ancient sea floor sediments around 60 million years ago, and the largest boulders are estimated to have taken about 4 million years<sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;to get to their current size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moeraki Boulders are a group of large spherical \u201cstones\u201d on Koekohe Beach near Moeraki on New Zealand\u2019s Otago coast. These boulders are actually concretions that have been exposed through shoreline erosion from coastal cliffs. Even today, there are still boulders remaining in the mudstone that will, eventually, fall on to the beach as they come lose due to erosion! The boulders are one of the most fascinating and popular attractions on the South Island. They originally started forming in ancient sea floor sediments around 60 million years ago, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9296,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-7543","phort_post","type-phort_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","phort_post_category-landscapes","phort_post_category-moeraki-boulders-landscapes","phort_post_category-south-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phort_post\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phort_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/phort_post"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}