This is me on one of the 55 million-year-old Moeraki boulders, famous for being naturally spherical/ball shaped.
Weirdly, they all started off as a regular sized pebble or shell that sunk to the bottom of a quiet seabed. As they settled, lime formed around them and as the many, many centuries passed they grew and grew. That original seabed is now raised above the sea, in the form of cliffs, and as the water washes away the softer rock it leaves the boulders for all to see.
There are loads on the beach, big and small, and who knows how many more still to be revealed?
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