A day out on the train

A two hour train ride along stunning coastline north of Dunedin to look at The Moeraki Boylders. When the train arrived at the jumping off point it stopped on a rail/road crossing, the warning bells halting the traffic and considering this was in the middle of nowhere was a surprising number of cars. The same on the return. It felt like watching a western years ago with Charles Bronson waiting on the other side of the track when the train disappears. (We are fans of Once upon a time in the west).

From the Internet:
The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve. The erosion by wave action of mudstone, comprising local bedrock and landslides, frequently exposes embedded isolated boulders. These boulders are grey-colored septarian concretions, which have been exhumed from the mudstone enclosing them and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion.[1][2][3][4]