Kaihinaki

*Screaming crying throwing up etc* BIG W! KIND OF! IT COUNTS! Vinid 1.6kg, old name Intellige.

Came with art so I do feel bad for changing her scry and name up a bit but jhdckjfkdjsl she's an OVERCAST DOUBLE G1, a dreamie as an XXX but I will settle for this. I'm VERY happy rn ;c;

Oh, Level 25 too. I missed that at first but that's a nice bonus cx

Named after the Moeraki Boulders in Otago, NZ. Their Maori name is Te Kaihinaki :D

Te Kaihinaki means "eel pots/food baskets" in Te Reo. Moeraki means “a place to sleep by day” or “drowsy day” in Te Reo. Noble Laureate quote by Rabindranath Tagore.

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The Moeraki Boulders (officially Moeraki Boulders / Te Kaihinaki) are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve. These boulders are grey-colored septarian concretions created by the cementation of the Paleocene mudstone of the Moeraki Formation from which have been exhumed from the mudstone and bedrock enclosing them and concentrated on the beach by coastal erosion. Especially in recent years, the boulders have been a popular tourist attraction. The main body of the boulders started forming in what was then marine mud, near the surface of the Paleocene sea floor. This is demonstrated by studies of their composition; specifically the magnesium and iron content, and stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon. Their spherical shape indicates that the source of calcium was mass diffusion, as opposed to fluid flow. The larger boulders, 2 metres (6.6 ft) in diameter, are estimated to have taken 4 to 5.5 million years to grow while 10 to 50 metres (33 to 164 ft) of marine mud accumulated on the seafloor above them. After the concretions formed, large cracks known as septaria formed in them. Brown calcite, yellow calcite, and small amounts of dolomite and quartz progressively filled these cracks when a drop in sea level allowed fresh groundwater to flow through the mudstone enclosing them. Approximately one-third of the boulders range in size from about 0.5 to 1.0 metre (1.6 to 3.3 ft) in diameter, the other two-thirds from 1.5 to 2.2 metres (4.9 to 7.2 ft). Most are spherical or almost spherical, but a small proportion are slightly elongated parallel to the bedding plane of the mudstone that once enclosed them.

Local Māori legends explained the boulders as the remains of eel baskets, calabashes, and kūmara washed ashore from the wreck of Āraiteuru, a large sailing canoe. This legend tells of the rocky shoals that extend seaward from Shag Point as being the petrified hull of this wreck and a nearby rocky promontory as being the body of the canoe's captain. Their reticulated patterning on the boulders, according to this legend, are the remains of the canoe's fishing nets.

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