{"id":1454,"date":"2020-01-09T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T00:18:35","slug":"moeraki-boulders-te-kaihinaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/moeraki-boulders-te-kaihinaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Moeraki Boulders (Te Kaih\u012bnaki)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we dropped by the Moeraki Boulders on the way down to Dunedin. These spherical boulders on Koekohe beach were formed, according to scientists, around 60 million years ago from mudstone cementation and have been gradually exposed from coastal erosion. The larger boulders are believed to have taken 4 million years to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maori legends tell of a shipwrecked canoe, the Arai-te-uru, and the debris and contents of it washed ashore and became the boulders that we see today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-moeraki-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-moeraki-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1455\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-moeraki-1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/?attachment_id=1455\" class=\"wp-image-1455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/new-zealand-moeraki-1.jpg 855w, 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These spherical boulders on Koekohe beach were formed, according to scientists, around 60 million years ago from mudstone cementation and have been gradually exposed from coastal erosion. The larger boulders are believed to have taken 4 million years to grow. Maori legends &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/moeraki-boulders-te-kaihinaki\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moeraki Boulders (Te Kaih\u012bnaki)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}