Take me for a walk, a walk in time where no clocks were ticking and no fossils energy market were in place. It was some time ago but thinking to this place almost always make me forget the currency of nowday time. This place alongside the green pastures of the New Zealand's Southland is the graveyard of trees that lived 180 millions years ago. To walk in proximity of this ancient fossilized trees is thought provoking and oneiric.
On a closing note, this place got me thinking about the far geological eras before current time, how slow everything was flowing in comparison of these times and how lucky we are to have some places like this that make scientific research more apparent. But preservation doesn't seems a value we are to much attached nowdays so I want to praise the people and the rangers of The Catlins for having put restricted areas and passageways to reduce the damage that a tourist may cause and hopefully improve even more so that tourists and penguins can coexist for a long time.
Salutes from Curio Bay petrified forest.
Have a goodday!
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