Elephant Rocks

Otago

The Elephant Rocks locality features strangely sculptured remains of Otekaike limestone. The limestone started out on the sea floor some 24 million years ago during the Oligocene Opoch. In recent geological times, probably within the last million years, the limestone was uplifted. Water and wind weathered the limestone into the current shapes. With imagination, some of the surfaces are reminiscent of elephants.