Auckland, New Zealand
Saturday saw me leave Stewart Island and travel with the Stray bus crew to Dunedin. Our bus stopped off at Catlins Wilderness, where if you go down to the rocky beach you will see a petrified forest. Whats that you ask? 180 million years ago lava and ash mixed with flood water and completely demolished this forest. The trees didnt decompose in the ash filled water, and so became fossilized. The remains are all solid rock, but look like normal wood that had been f...