Some post-Christmas #geology#Triassic tourism at Kiritehere Beach, a remote location on the west coast of the North Island, New Zealand.
Well worth a visit if you ever get this way, just go to the famous Waitomo Caves and keep going for an hour or so (it's mostly sealed road, but it is winding).
Black sand beaches and dramatic cliffs made of Triassic sedimentary rocks that were once part of #Gondwana. Rocks, full, and I mean full, of fossils, particularly the shellfish Monotis.
When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl
up like burnt paper.