18th Feb travelled to Twizel, stayed for 2 nights then onto Oamaru. It rained all the way. We stopped to see the Clay Cliffs near Omarama. These were formed after 2 million years of erosion on layers of silt and gravel. They are a very strange landscape, but we didn`t hang round too long as it was eroding as we stood there!
We also stopped at Elephant Rocks which are giant boulders which began as sand, buried 25 million years ago and have hardened into limestone. This setting was used as the backdrop for Aslan`s camp in the films `Narnia` and `The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe`.
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