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Muriwai Beach Gannet Season #3

Muriwai Beach Gannet Season #3

Like most West coast beaches in NZ, Muriwai is a beautiful, rugged, surf beach with glistening black sand (ironsand washed up the coast from historic eruptions...
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Like most West coast beaches in NZ, Muriwai is a beautiful, rugged, surf beach with glistening black sand (ironsand washed up the coast from historic eruptions of Mt Taranaki, further south). Breaking surf at Muriwai beach Just up from the beach is a gannet (takapu) refuge. Before heading up that way we stopped for an ice cream. Some of the gannet refuge is on the mainland, some on adjacent off-shore islands. The rock stack with the flat top in the picture is called motutara - island of the seabirds.
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Aperture 53/10 ISO 400 Shutter 10/12500 Focal Length 2500/10

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Nov, 2018

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