Moeraki Boulders

<p>GeoPark - Sasha – Moeraki Boulders January 2020</p> <p><strong>Real Radio: </strong>For the first time in 2020, joined by the GeoPark Educator Sasha Morriss. Now, what are we talking about today, Sasha?</p> <p><strong>Geoeducator: </strong>Yes, happy new year, everybody. Today, I am going to be talking about Moeraki Boulders. I'd be interested to actually hear who made a trip down there. We'd like to see your photos.&nbsp; Send them in to us to on instagram or our Facebook. And we'd like to have a look and we can put them up there on our page.</p> <p><strong>Real Radio: </strong>They're pretty unique. The boulders, aren't they?</p> <p><strong>Geoeducator: </strong>Yes, they are. And we're a bit disappointed, actually, to discover last year that there was a bit of vandalism happening down there.&nbsp; There is a new boulder that's emerging out of the cliff. And people have kind of inscribed things into it. And so last year, there was a group of us that went down from the GeoPark down to Moeraki to have a wee look at it. We met up with some people from Vanished World, the local Runanga, and also DOC. And we have we look around the boulders, in particular, the boulder that's been defaced and also the DOC site down there, which is called Te Kaihinaki. Not a lot of people may know about that. It's a separate area that you can actually park at at Moeraki Boulders and then you can actually take a really nice walk along the beach to the actual boulders themselves. It takes about 10 minutes and as it's a lovely walk and you get to look back across the bay at Moeraki township itself. Now, when we were there, we were just discussing the vandalism of this particular boulder that's happened in the past to some of the other boulders as well. And what we can do to encourage people to be a bit more mindful of visiting this site in particular.&nbsp; The boulders have got specific importance to the the Runaka, which is detailed down there if you're at Moeraki. There's a big display board up here about the importance of the site