Moeraki

We should have expected the chill would be memorable and it WAS. Dunedin had a snow storm but miraculously Moeraki just missed it. You could see the edge of the storm from the surrounding hills as we drove about. But we couldn't avoid the wind, chill factor of at least -8, it was utterly unbelievable! Gusts of over 100km/hr which sent birds sweeping down hillsides, hopelessly trying to navigate the other way. Check out the seagull photo, talk about hunkering down!
What this all meant of course that outside ambles were short and sweet and most of the time we spent indoors eating and talking and having coffee at Fleurs. Some lunatics DID get up early and photograph the boulders simply because they do that sort of thing. But not us.
We stayed at Palmerston with Mary & Mike and on the Saturday morning we left the house in a blizzard. Arrived at Moeraki for breakfast to find the sun shining.
Crazy weather.
I only took 101 photos and pretty much binned the majority. Only one black and white I've kept for a possible inclusion in a future competition but the rest here are merely photo snaps.