2retire2: Moeraki Boulders

Went tp Moeraki to see the Boulders. Slightly different to last time. There is a box for $2 to pay towards the maintenance of the path. This is the path from the Café and Gift shop to the beach. Also by the time we got there the tide was coming in. There seemed to be and I don't know but there seemed to be less boulders so some may have been covered, By the time we left there was very little beach left and people were walking single file between the cliff and the sea

The camera they say does not lie. Not true. There were 50 or 60 people on the beach climbing on the boulders and taking pictures, it took me ages and careful positioning to get clear shots.

There were a couple , two girls. Though they were in their late twenties they behaved like schoolgirls set free for the day. One was galloping up and down on an imaginary horse. That's fine but they spent 15 minutes on one set of boulders trying to take a picture. Girl one the portly one circled the rock trying to climb onto it. Finally she scrambled up and onto it, she tried to arrange herself in a glamour pose. This took several seconds as she seemed yo have no sense of balance. Her companion (the one pretending she had a gee gee) composed the shot. This also took several minutes, because she was taking pictures from several angles and heights but each move took ages as she had to keep looking at the camera for some reason. Seemingly finished she then she realized she didn't know how to use the camera so girl one was shouting instructions at her. Gee Gee girl then set about another sequence of shots whilst girl one took up different poses all of which required her to get down on all fours as she precariously changed position. At one point she none to gracefully slid of the rock and had to take several minutes trying to climb back on. I may say only she had trouble.

I and a German guy were standing by waiting for the shot we wanted. They could have stood back let us take our pictures and then carry on , but no, 15 minutes of farting about . The german guy looked at me smiled and said they are making an epic , I think.
Finally they left , hand in hand skipping down the beach .

Some pictures of Flotsam. Not sure this is correct terminology. Flotsam is stuff deliberately thrown overboard from a ship from the French floter to float. This is debris from coast or inland. Jetsam is stuff thrown overboard in desperation to lighten the ship eg to jettison. In fact looking at it now this is driftwood. Here's some pictures of driftwood

broken boulders 4 to 5 million years in the making

Pictures from the viewing gallery, well not quite. You cant see much from the viewing gallery you have to walk down a short path worn by other frustrated photographers to a narrow shel to get the view. Perhaps some of the $2 could be used to cut the bushes back.

You can see the beach and boulders disappearing as the tide comes in.

driftwood, seaweed, and broken boulders

Few people seem to have low end cameras. Most have these highly computerized digital models costing several hundred to several thousand. They have lenses to photograph Mars and no idea how to use any of it. It is something when the camera is smarter than the user. They then take absolutely forever to take a picture, WHY? Digital photography makes it so easy . Snap away to your hearts content , be inventive , you can do the whole lot in 30 seconds and clear the way for someone else. Then you go and sit in a café / bar restuarent/car and see what you got. Each picture is in itself a dozen other pictures given the editing software on a modern camera so why fart about forever ?

This was the shot I spent 15 minutes waiting for , only its not as by the time gee gee and co departed the tide had come in and I couldn't get the angle.