Granity Granite

When they named the little coastal town of Granity they didn't use much imagination but, it's succinct.
The beaches are predominantly granite cobbles in the intertidal zone and above the high tide line. The colours (mineral components) and morphology of the stones are hugely diverse, and in some areas very complicated.

There's a spot a few kilometers north of Granity, that I photographed 20years ago when we previously lived in Buller, I revisited the area this week and was stunned at how interesting the granite boulders were and how little impacted that had had on me back then. I've always loved rocks but I've become much more tuned into geologic process and formation in the last decade.