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Boulders Beach is a sheltered beach made up of inlets between granite boulders, from which the name originated. It is located on the Cape Peninsula, in Simon's Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is also commonly known as Boulders Bay. [1] It is a popular tourist spot because of a colony of African penguins which settled there ...
The Moeraki Boulders (officially Moeraki Boulders / Kaihinaki) are unusually large 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 ...
African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) on Boulders Beach. Boulders Beach is located a few kilometres to the south of Simon's Town, in the direction of Miller's Point. Here small coves and beaches are interspersed between boulders of Cape granite. There has been a colony of African penguins at Boulders Beach since 1982. [5]
Boulder Beach is a rocky beach on the Pacific Ocean, located on the south side of Otago Peninsula, some 15.7 kilometres (9.8 mi) by road east from central Dunedin, New Zealand. [1] In addition to being relatively difficult to access physically due to the steepness of the surrounding country, it is closed to the public in the summer months ...
The Moeraki Boulders, Ward Beach boulders and Koutu Boulders of New Zealand are examples of septarian concretions, which are also cannonball concretions. Large spherical rocks, which are found on the shore of Lake Huron near Kettle Point, Ontario , and locally known as "kettles" , are typical cannonball concretions.
The boulders form natural tidal pools, tunnels, arches, and scenic grottoes that are open to the sea. [2] The largest boulders are about 40 feet (12 m) long. Since 1990, the area has been a BVI National Park [ 3 ] as are the adjacent bays, [ 4 ] and the area is a major tourist attraction, with swimming and snorkeling being the main attractions.
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Ward Beach is a section of rugged coastline in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand that is known for unusual rock formations. The geological features include the exposed reef platforms that were uplifted by 2 m or more during the 2016 KaikÅura earthquake , and the spherical concretions known as the Ward Beach boulders.