" Moeraki Boulders "
The Moeraki Boulders are spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach 40 Km south of Oamaru.
Local Maori legends explained the boulders as the remains of eel baskets, calabashes, and kumara washed ashore from the wreck of an Arai-te-uru, a large sailing canoe. This legend tells of the rocky shoals that extend seaward from Shag Point as being the petrified hull of this wreck and a nearby rocky promontory as being the body of the canoe's captain.